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f there is field not affected by the current crisis, it is the market for iPhone applications. One only needs to look at the number of applications added every day on the AppStore and their increasing quality. It shows that developers have a better control of the tools made available by Apple.
According to oDesk, a specific service recruiting freelance developers, number of requests for project on the iPhone platform jumped by 500 %, and now represents over 140 new projects every month. If most of the early developers came form the Mac ecosystem, new comers are joining too, and it will further increase the interest for the iPhone platform.
Beside developers, the other winner is Apple, as having developers rushing to bring their applications to the Mac illustrate the growth of the market, the rational of having an AppStore, and how such huge number of applications already available will further support the iPhone growth and its market on the long-term.
