It’s been a year since the iPhone App Store first opened for business, and we’ve seen it race past landmark after landmark in just 365 days. Now though, Apple’s just announced the figures, and they’re astounding. All you iPhone and iPod touch owners have been stocking up on pocket programs at the rate of 50 a second! Read on for the full breakdown.
Apple’s just announced that over 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded in the space of a year from the iPhone App Store, which now stocks more than 65,000 apps. We already knew that Apple had passed the 9 digit mark, but that’s still astonishing.
To put it in perspective, the iPhone App Store has sold on average 4.1 million apps a day since launch – that’s 171,230 an hour, 2,853 a minute oor 47.6 a second! And since it took a while for the iPhone App Store to become so densely stocked, you can bet the rate is even higher right now.
In fact, Apple’s so chuffed with the iPhone App Store that even Steve Jobs weighed in to comment on it. “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” he said. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”
Catching up they’re trying though, with everyone from BlackBerry to now even LG having a crack. Do any of them stand a chance against the iPhone App Store juggernaut?
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The app store makes the iphone what it is without it the iphone would have been a flop.I don’t have an iphone yet but I have a 16 gb ipod touch that has quiet a few apps on it.The good thing about the app store is a lot of the apps are free.
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