Apple has followed up their previous website announcement with a press release, repeating that the iTunes App Store has reached 25 billion downloads, and revealing that the person who downloaded the 25 billionth app, Where's My Water? Free, was Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. He'll be getting a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”
The App Store, which launched alongside the iPhone 3G and iOS 2 (iPhone OS 2) in 2008, is now in 123 countries, with over 550,000 apps, over 170,000 of which run natively on the iPad.
Here's the full press released, and congratulations to Chunli Fu!
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 25 Billion
CUPERTINO, California—March 5, 2012—Apple® today announced that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store™ by the users of the more than 315 million iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® devices worldwide. The 25 billionth app downloaded, Where's My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes® Gift Card.
“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”
The revolutionary App Store offers more than 550,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 123 countries around the world, with more than 170,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 21 categories, including Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness and travel. The App Store has paid out more than four billion dollars to developers.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
Reader comments
Apple announces 25 billion app downloads, $10K iTunes winner
It would kind of be more awesome if they gave ALL the people that buy the apps a little something to thank them instead of just one person. :(
Word... And not to mention that this was probably a Chinese hacker who setup an automatic system/script to download as many apps as possible to win the contest. lol
And you managed to deduce this simply by his name and the fact he is Chinese? Racist much?
Oh my god. Here we go w racism the charges again. Can't we make it thru one day without someone crying wolf?!
I agree can we please stop with this racist bomb either way you look at it he won and if it was determined he did it by botting dont you think Apple would have figured that out by now?
It's a well known fact the Chinese in China do A LOT of government sanctioned hacking, and it has nothing to do with their race. So put your race card away and stop being so sensitive.
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