Today Apple announced that more than two billion applications from its iTunes App store have been downloaded to date.
As of December 28th 2009, Apple has reported over 2 billion iPhone and iTouch applications being downloaded from their ITunes Store. With apps in every category from music, to twitter apps to organizational apps. to health and fitness, there’s something for everyone.
There are now more than 85,000 apps available and over 125,000 developers of these apps in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device and our users are clearly loving it.”
iPhone and iTouch users in 77 countries can choose from a vast range of applications with more being developed each day. Its no wonder its so easy for that number to be reached. Its so easy to sync your player or phone to iTunes and download the app after it is purchased.
December 29th, 2009 at 4:39 am
That's the equivalent of 16,000 downloads for each developer or 23,500 for each app.