Like other mobile operating system makers, Microsoft distributes its apps through an online app store.
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Aura also serves as a great way to launch pre-loaded gaming and educational apps or download new ones from the online app store.
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The Mobile Infantry game adaptation is available on Apple iOS devices including iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad, as well as the Mac App Store, Android Market, Chrome App Store and other online cloud gaming networks like Steam.
The iTunes Store is the world's most popular online music, app, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 26 million songs, over 700, 000 apps, over 190, 000 TV episodes and over 45, 000 films.
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The films are still available through companies like Netflix and Comcast (via video on demand) but now they are also available at sites where people spend tons of time online: Facebook and the App store.
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BlackBerry App World, its online store, has about 100, 000 apps, compared to more than 700, 000 each for Android and Apple.
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Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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You've seen Apple's App Store, Google Play and Amazon and Windows online shops for apps?
Consumer Reports picked it as the best app for finding the lowest drug prices in store and online.
At least one left-leaning group, the California-based Courage Campaign, launched an online petition Tuesday urging Apple to pull the NRA game from its App Store.
Usually to the App Store on iTunes or Google or they just search for it online and download it.
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Realising the importance of mobile services, it launched Ovi, an online storefront for such things in 2007, a year before Apple opened its highly successful App Store.
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