Apple Advertises 300 Million Apps Downloaded, Over 10,000 Apps in App Store
O2 ad posted to Flickr
Both Apple and O2 have started advertising the App Store in print media today. O2 posted a copy of this ad which appears in The Metro. Meanwhile, Macworld reports that Apple has placed ads in The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
In the U.S. print ads (not pictured), Apple reports that 300 million apps have been downloaded and confirms that the App Store now carries over 10,000 applications. The App Store crossed over the 10,000 app point on Wednesday and the current App count is 10,353 apps according to AppShopper.
Apple last reported that they had exceeded 200 million App Store downloads in late October.
Update: Macworld has published a photo of the U.S. ad.
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42 months ago
Kudos to :apple: . I still however would like to see more apps that have effective desktop counterparts that sync. And when is Apple going to fulfill it's promise to allow iPhone apps to process badges in the background for alarms and such?
42 months ago
O2 also just started selling the iPhone 3G without a contract on Pay As You Go in the UK (http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=Mjg4NzQ3Mw), pricing doesn't seem all that bad either.
42 months ago
This is why the iPhone is going to be, very, very hard to catch. Even if a competitor comes up with a comparable SDK/API it is likely that developers will have to write/test for many, sometimes radically different phones (e.g. Android).
And the more the iPhone App ecosystem succeeds, the more mindshare it will attract.
And the more the iPhone App ecosystem succeeds, the more mindshare it will attract.
42 months ago
Those are incredible numbers. Shows what a brilliant yet simple idea the App store is.
42 months ago
Talk about a booming success. Wow!!! I wonder how many are paid Apps and how many were free.
42 months ago
Very cool indeed. I'm interested in the financial numbers, but we'll not likely see those.
42 months ago
I wonder how this is calculated. About 5 days ago, we first heard that Apple hit the 10K mark (but was actually at the 9,700 mark or whatever). Now we're at 10.3K? I follow appshopper like a religious freak and I know that they have not added about 500 new (never before available) apps in the last few days. Are they counting updates to apps as "new" apps? I could definitively believe that.
42 months ago
So tempting to rush my app and put it in the store already...
patience... is so hard... watching others make money with their garbage... must remember that quality will inevitably conquer quantity at the end.
patience... is so hard... watching others make money with their garbage... must remember that quality will inevitably conquer quantity at the end.
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