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Apple has reached a major milestone, its app store has reached 50 Billion Downloads. To put that into perspective, there is about 6 Billion people in the world w/c means there is almost 10 apps downloaded for each living soul on the planet. To put it on even better perspective, Apple has sold 500 Million iOS devices according to most recent numbers ( source here ). That means on average each iOS device sold has 100 apps installed/downloaded to it.  If you think this milestone is important only from a business standpoint, you are missing half the story. Here is why: How the iPhone changed the mobile market When the first iPhone came out, the Apple App store was not in existence yet and no one had any idea how big a role apps will play in our lives. The first iPhone unveiled on January 9, 2007 and went on sale on June 29, 2007. At launch, the 1st Generation iPhone was able to do basic Smartphone functions (ie. web-browsing, email, calendar, etc.) and it was heralded as ...

People across the world are slowly feeling worried. Each day that goes by, people hear news about the coming end. They start hearing a slow but steady drum beat heralding humanity's inevitable doom and it is getting louder and closer each day. I am not talking about the apocalypse but something more subtle and real. I am talking about the speed at which technology is getting better and cheaper each day.  I am talking about how factories are warehouses are slowly getting filled with machines and robots rather than humans. I am talking about what people consider is the real apocalypse- for what is humanity when all the jobs are gone? What is man when his source of pride and wealth has been reduced to a set of computer programs performed by robots?  Aside from the obvious economic impact, some people feel that the most devastating effect of technology's encroachment on humanity is the loss of humanity itself. People need well paying jobs to survive and to realiz...