1.5 billion Apple App Store downloads achieved in a year

14 July, 2009
Today Apple announced that the number of downloaded applications from their App Store has just exceeded 1.5 billion. Just one short year after the launch of the online application store the figures...

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  • 14 Jul 2009

Clint, 14 Jul 2009I think it is fantastic that Apple has done wonders with th... moreas a fellow canadian you should be a shamed of following US standards
itunes is the most pot holed music program

i have a zune on the other had and don't need to fill my MP3 players with crap
just music and videos

your a sad case

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    • Abishek Raju
    • upY
    • 14 Jul 2009

    Hey, multi-tasking has been out on the iPhone for 3weeks now.Just download "Backgrounder" from Cydia!
    Just keep falling in love with this 6inch OSX beauty everyday..what with the new App-a-day and the super suave OS3.0!
    The gap that the iPhone is putting between it's closest rivals is just too huge now to call them competition.
    There have been so called "iPhone killers" in the Omnia,Diamond,5800,HTC HD,N96,N97 but though many of them have great hardware their os is just a generation behind.

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      • Anonymous
      • nTU
      • 14 Jul 2009

      Rock on apple......i myself hav d/l abt 10000 tings frm apple store

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        • ahsn11
        • 2Tt
        • 14 Jul 2009

        yeah no doubt the best apps are on iphone but real multitasking (allow me to mention pre here) would have been sweeter

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          • Clint
          • 46a
          • 14 Jul 2009

          I think it is fantastic that Apple has done wonders with their app store. Yet as a Canadian, using iTunes I have no idea how one access's the supposedly thousands of Apps available. If I connect my iTouch and go through every category and use the 'all' choice...the absolute most I would get is about 100 per category on average, Rounded UP. Spread over about 10-12 categories that is about 1200 apps total. hmmmmm pretty big freaking spread from 65,000 apps supposedly available.

          I would like to see the App store figures broken down into Real numbers.
          Country has X apps for iPhone/ for iTouch and has an average of X% that are rated 4 stars or higher by more than 500 people. (billions of people downloading shouldn't be a problem to get 500 reviewing on the best of the best apps)

          .i.e. (Numbers below are fictitious and only give an IDEA of layout/data) so it would look like this:

          Canada has 1213 apps for iPhone/ 680 for iTouch. 1% are 4 star+ ratings as reviewed by 500+ people.

          USA has 48,000 apps for iPhone/ 17,000apps for iTouch. 15% are 4 star+ ratings as reviewed by 500+ people.

          Overall, the stats given by apple are pretty useless as they sit. More like just a mass collection of numbers with no real value. Another thought...are updates to apps considered separate downloads?

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            • Rip
            • G2G
            • 14 Jul 2009

            Anonymous, 14 Jul 2009jesus phone > allShow some respect and try to keep perspective! Repeat with me: iphone is just a phone... not salvation! Got it? Good...

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              • Alex P
              • q2I
              • 14 Jul 2009

              Fantastic Marketing!

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                • T_X
                • 0Cd
                • 14 Jul 2009

                So much money, lol, what are they using so much money? i suppouse theyare using those money for next developments, or something

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                  • Anonymous
                  • q{r
                  • 14 Jul 2009

                  jesus phone > all

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                    • Anonymous
                    • FMY
                    • 14 Jul 2009

                    It better be cos that's the only reason people buy Iphoney...

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                      • G-spank
                      • pqy
                      • 14 Jul 2009

                      really amazing apllications

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                        • G-spank
                        • pqy
                        • 14 Jul 2009

                        really amazing apllicatios

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                          • iPhone Spanker
                          • mNu
                          • 14 Jul 2009

                          So what....

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                            • Rohit sachdeva
                            • 2@1
                            • 14 Jul 2009

                            Awesome Apple is done a great job...Really best mobile with best apps..