The App Store this past holiday weekend has passed over 10,000 available apps for the iPhone. This is a gigantic number that seems unending. The current number at the time of this post is 10,186.

It is obvious that Apple’s SDK kit and iPhone/iPod touch platform has attracted great interest from developers. These numbers has to be scaring the iPhone competitors.

RIM (Research In Motion) experienced a rocky roll out for the Storm last week that copies some stuff from the iPhone. This is RIM’s first touch screen device. On top of lacking WiFi and any good reviews, the Storm is solely lacking apps. Although RIM, taking Apple’s lead and is planning an App Store, it is clear they will have long road ahead to catch the iPhone on third party apps.

Not only are iPhone developers making money, many are finding developing apps for the iPhone far easier. Development for the Blackbery or Windows Mobile platforms requires them to create a build for each phone and each network. Many are finding Objective-C a lot easier than the Java that runs on the Blackberry.

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The busy bees at Apple have released a bunch of updates. See all the updates.

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Mike LeBeau of the Google mobile team gives an overview of the new updated Google Mobile App for iPhone. The App let’s you speak your queries without pushing any buttons, and also let’s you do local search. This look very cool and useful. This update is expected to show up in the App Store anytime now. More at the NY Times.

Apple recommends this update for all Safari users. Safari 3.2 features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses. This update also includes the latest security updates. For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit Apple support site.

Just fire up software update or use these standalone downloads:

• Safari 3.2 for Leopard – 39MB
• Safari 3.2 for Tiger – 25MB
• Safari 3.2 for Windows – 19MB

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I have owned computers for many years running different operating systems including Windows, Amiga, Linux, and Mac OS. I am not writing this to say “I’m a Mac” and you should not be a “PC.”

Fact is all Macs run Windows out of the box. So if you own an use a Mac you are a PC, also. One reason I have no idea what Microsoft is talking about in the latest bring ads.

I came across this poor guys comment on Amazon today and it reminded me of al the support and customer service nightmares I have had over the years. Read after the jump.

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