Apple announces 500 thousand iOS apps, 18 billion downloads
As part of a press release today touting 100 million Mac App Store downloads, Apple also revealed that they now have more than 500,000 iOS apps for iPhone and iPad, and collectively those apps have been downloaded more than 18 billion times -- over 1 billion a month now.
“In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”
Anyone who ever had a Palm Treo or Windows Mobile phone prior to the iPhone knows how expensive, elaborate, and error-prone getting apps on mobile devices used to be. Since Apple made the idea of an on-ever-device, integrated-into-the-OS App Store mainstream in 2008 with iOS 2 (iPhone OS 2), it's become economical, convenient, and reliable, and standard on every other major platform.
There remain challenges, like the inability to handle demos or paid upgrades, but the numbers don't lie. Congrats, Apple.
Source: Apple PR
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Exactly the same values where given in Tim Cook's keynote on October the 4th!
they didn't "revel" that they had over 500,000 ios apps... they only reaffirmed it...
they had already said they crossed 500,000 ios apps during the earnings conference call...
and "inability to handle demos paid upgrades"???? what? does in app purchase ring any bells? (and then free apps that have in app purchase, would be demo apps)