2010 Search

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1. The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting

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   Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...

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2. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/itunes-store

   The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

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3. app

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   app: A smartphone application; the American Dialect Society's 2010 word of the year. "There's an app for that." Example: "is there an app for that?"

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4. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - The $29 upgrade with no new features, and the Mac App Store on the way

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   Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5...

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5. Amazon - Books, Kindle, and a store that sold everything

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   Amazon in 2010 was the everything store with a cluttered tan-and-orange homepage, two-day shipping for $79-a-year Prime members, and a Kindle business so successful that...

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6. Apple TV (2nd generation) - A $99 black puck for renting shows and streaming Netflix

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   The second-generation Apple TV, announced on 1 September 2010, shrank to a tiny black box with no storage, rented TV episodes for 99 cents and films from $3.99, streamed...

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7. Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all

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   Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...

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8. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

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   ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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9. iPod touch (4th generation) - An iPhone 4 without the phone, and the teenager's first iOS device

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   The September 2010 iPod touch borrowed the iPhone 4's Retina display, A4 chip and FaceTime camera, starting at $229. For millions of teenagers it was the first App Store...

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10. iPhone 4 - Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

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    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera...

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11. iPad - A 9.7-inch tablet nobody knew they needed

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    Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad on 27 January 2010 and it went on sale in the US on 3 April, selling 300,000 on the first day and a million within a month. It ran iPhone...

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12. Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare

    Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...

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13. Google Chrome (versions 4 to 8) - The fast newcomer with tabs on top and one box for everything

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-chrome

    Chrome went from about 5 percent of worldwide browser usage at the start of 2010 to roughly 15 percent by December. Version 4 added extensions in January, version 5 in...

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14. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - Linux for people, with a new purple theme

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ubuntu-10-04

    Ubuntu 10.04, released in April 2010, was the Linux distribution most likely to be found on a netbook or a curious student's dual-boot laptop. It introduced a...

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15. Steam in 2010 - Steam comes to the Mac, and sales that emptied wallets

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steam-2010

    Valve's Steam store launched on the Mac in May 2010 with Portal free for two weeks, and its holiday sales, with daily deals at 75 percent off, became a ritual. Steam had...

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16. Bandcamp - Name your price

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    Bandcamp gave independent artists a simple page to stream and sell their music, including "name your price" downloads in any format from MP3 to FLAC. By 2010 it was...

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17. Nexus One - Google's own Android phone, sold online

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one

    Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...

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18. Xbox 360 S - The slim, glossy 360 with built-in Wi-Fi

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    Announced at E3 in June 2010 and in stores days later, the redesigned Xbox 360 S was slimmer, quieter, had built-in Wi-Fi and a 250 GB drive, and included a port for...

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19. PlayStation 3 Slim - Blu-ray, free online play, and the year the Other OS vanished

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    The PS3 Slim, released in 2009 at $299, was Sony's console through 2010, with a Blu-ray drive, free PlayStation Network play and exclusives like God of War III, Heavy...

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20. iOS 4 - Multitasking, folders, and a new name

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ios-4

    Apple renamed iPhone OS to iOS with version 4, released on 21 June 2010. It added multitasking (in a limited form), home-screen folders, wallpapers, a unified inbox,...

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21. trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.

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    trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"

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22. iPhone 3GS - The 2009 iPhone that most iPhone owners still carried

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    For the first half of 2010 the iPhone 3GS was Apple's flagship, and after June it stayed on sale at $99 as the entry model. Its plastic curved back, 3.5-inch 480-by-320...

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23. MacBook Air (late 2010) - Flash storage only, and an 11-inch model for $999

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    On 20 October 2010 Apple reintroduced the MacBook Air in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes with flash storage instead of a hard drive, instant wake and no optical drive. At $999...

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24. iPod nano (6th generation) - A tiny touchscreen square that people wore as a watch

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-nano-6

    The 2010 iPod nano dropped the click wheel and video camera for a 1.5-inch multitouch square with a clip, the size of a postage stamp. Watch-strap accessories turned it...

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25. Safari 5 - Reader mode and extensions, in brushed aluminium

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    Safari 5, released on 7 June 2010 for Mac and Windows, added Reader (a clean article view), extensions, Bing as a search option and a faster Nitro JavaScript engine. On...

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26. Windows Live Hotmail - The world's biggest webmail, redesigned

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hotmail

    Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...

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27. Yelp - Reviews of everything, and fights with restaurants

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yelp

    Yelp's crowd-sourced reviews of restaurants and shops were a habit for city dwellers in 2010, and its iPhone app was among the first with an augmented-reality feature...

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28. Feature phones - What most of the world actually carried

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones

    Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...

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29. Steve Jobs - The iPad, the iPhone 4, and the war on Flash

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steve-jobs

    Steve Jobs had his last great year of product launches in 2010: the iPad in January, the "Thoughts on Flash" letter in April, the iPhone 4 in June, the Antennagate press...

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30. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

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    In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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