Curious about the status of the App Store, new developer builds of Snow Leopard, rumors about the iTablet, and Google’s possible conflicts of interest with Apple? These things and more topped this week’s Apple news, so read on if you need to catch up:

New test build of Snow Leopard has a few visual tweaks: Apple has updated test builds of Snow Leopard for developers. Along with bug fixes and tweaks, visual clues may signal the reappearance of the “Marble” UI.

App Store: 1.5 billion downloads, 65,000 apps, 100,000 devs: More than 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded for the iPhone and iPod touch roughly a year after the App Store’s launch. The store’s wild success is no longer a surprise, though we could still use some help separating the wheat from the chaff.

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