Apple Announces First-Year App Store Success: 1.5 Billion Downloads, 65,000 Apps
Apple today announced that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded over 1.5 billion applications in the App Store's first year of operation. There are currently over 65,000 applications available in the store.
The App Store surpassed one billion downloads less than three months ago. Today's announcement suggests that the 500 million downloads since that time occurred two weeks faster than the previous 500 million, demonstrating continued acceleration in the download rate.
Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace with more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program.
"The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up."
The App Store surpassed one billion downloads less than three months ago. Today's announcement suggests that the 500 million downloads since that time occurred two weeks faster than the previous 500 million, demonstrating continued acceleration in the download rate.
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34 months ago
Thats amazing.
It looks like most people are downloading a lot of apps too, an average of 37.5 per device.
Keep up the good work Apple, its one of my favourite recent developments.
It looks like most people are downloading a lot of apps too, an average of 37.5 per device.
Keep up the good work Apple, its one of my favourite recent developments.
34 months ago
I wonder if this will be the future of Mac Apps in general? It'd be a bit like a commercial Apt or Yum repository, I suppose. At the very least, it'd be nice because you'd get all of your updates from Apple through one Software Update application.
34 months ago
I'd be more interested to know out of that 1.5 Billion how many are still residing on a device and not in the Trash.
34 months ago
I'd really like to know what the app delete rate is. :cool:
My sentiments exactly.
I'd be more interested to know out of that 1.5 Billion how many are still residing on a device and not in the Trash.
My sentiments exactly.
34 months ago
That is a lot of apps and a lot of downloads
No wonder I can never find anything in the App Store
No wonder I can never find anything in the App Store
34 months ago
Microsoft and PC vendors offer plenty of choice of programs and hardware at low prices and are accused of being cheap and useless. Apple offers lots of little apps at low prices and its a cause for celebration.
34 months ago
Who cares! All they have in the app store is the fart apps!
Apple, get with it, there are people that work for a living and would like something besides a fart app or a game!
Apple, get with it, there are people that work for a living and would like something besides a fart app or a game!
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