Apple App Store crosses the 50 billion app downloads milestone

16 May, 2013
The downloader of the 50 billionth app will get a $10,000 App Store gift card from Apple.

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  • Shaggy
  • TXU
  • 16 May 2013

Congratulaions Apple. Job well done.

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    • Anonymous
    • nCf
    • 16 May 2013

    Best Apps store.

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      • AL$
      • 16 May 2013

      Anus, 16 May 2013Windows8 is a PC/desktop OS, I can play Blizzard games,Phot... morediablo? just googled it. wish i hadnt, what a waste of 20 seconds... if thats your selling point, i'll stick to ios thanks!! looks like something my 16 year old plays with... unless your 16?

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        • Am9
        • 16 May 2013

        AnonD-59657, 16 May 2013If Windows 8 offers a better quality apps why the total no.... moreTablets can do 90% of the tasks you usually do on a PC(Internet browsing, e-mail, watching movies, playing games, etc). Being so portable and light is more convenient to use them instead of a PC. Only when their price is way above the price of a decent PC, like in the W8 tablets case, they don't sell, since people prefer to buy a PC + Android/iPad tablet combo instead, for less money.

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          • Am9
          • 16 May 2013

          Anus, 16 May 2013Windows8 is a PC/desktop OS, I can play Blizzard games,Phot... moreI don't think you can play Diablo and other Blizzard games on a W8 tablet without a mouse or touch pad(in that case it's very cumbersome if not impossible to play) and a keyboard, and that defeats the purpose of a tablet. And considering the cost of a W8 tablet, it makes batter sense to buy a desktop PC with better specs and an iPad.

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            • kartik
            • uu@
            • 16 May 2013

            still its gone out of the market now. apple is now history

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              • Anus
              • Mxb
              • 16 May 2013

              AnonD-59657, 16 May 2013If Windows 8 offers a better quality apps why the total no.... moreWindows8 is a PC/desktop OS, I can play Blizzard games,Photoshop, create Powerpoints from scratch and code apps using it...can you play DiabloIII with your iOS/android toys?

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                • ib3
                • 16 May 2013

                AnonD-3611, 16 May 2013WP is still new and is growing at a fine rate. Windows RT a... moreIf Windows 8 offers a better quality apps why the total no. of devices that runs on this OS is still very far behind the Android OS or even iOS?

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                  • AnonD-146134
                  • t7x
                  • 16 May 2013

                  AnonD-74353, 16 May 2013What's the name of the app using the iPad mini written as &... moreThe Name Of The App using The IPad mini was Called Paper by 53

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                    • Anonymous
                    • HI8
                    • 16 May 2013

                    AnonD-74353, 16 May 2013What's the name of the app using the iPad mini written as &... morePaper

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                      • fCN
                      • 16 May 2013

                      X, 16 May 2013Those 10.000 would be enough for your entire life to rent/b... moreWP is still new and is growing at a fine rate. Windows RT and WP are very different to have a combined app store. The focus is on quality rather than quantity. WP and WRT have apps optimized for each OS' specific devices. While there was no focus on quality by GOOGLE until now. And that's the reason you get different experience on different devices and is not consistent. In some it lags, crashes and in some it works fine.

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                        • vbR
                        • 16 May 2013

                        AnonD-146115, 16 May 2013Android: 48 billion app downloads One year younger OS.True. but it also runs on a billion devices from a billion varied vendors, launching numerous flagships. can't really compare. Good job from google though. Cheers

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                          • AnonD-74353
                          • t7T
                          • 16 May 2013

                          What's the name of the app using the iPad mini written as "Thanks"?

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                            • AnonD-3611
                            • fCN
                            • 16 May 2013

                            AnonD-146115, 16 May 2013Android: 48 billion app downloads One year younger OS.even though it's one year younger, it still has more no. of oems for the os and therefore a larger user base.

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                              • 3GC
                              • 16 May 2013

                              Anonymous, 16 May 2013does ny1 kno which app dis is??One which teaches you how to spell properly in English?

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                                • Anonymous
                                • XMc
                                • 16 May 2013

                                omg i hope im the winner

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • t1$
                                  • 16 May 2013

                                  does ny1 kno which app dis is??

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                                    • AnonD-59657
                                    • ib3
                                    • 16 May 2013

                                    It does not make sense at all! It should be less than Google.

                                    By looking at the total no. of Android OS based devices far more than Apple iOS devices.

                                    Can someone explain here?

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • StU
                                      • 16 May 2013

                                      It would be funny if the 500 billion download was a fart app.

                                      Google Play should overtake iTunes very soon in downloads. Shame it hasn't a hope of matching iTunes overall downloads.

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                                        • mSu
                                        • 16 May 2013

                                        Those 10.000 would be enough for your entire life to rent/buy movies, songs, books, apps.
                                        I'll be happy with 500$, enough for a year of rented movies.
                                        Anyway, Apple store has 50B downloads, Google Play is close with 48B, where is MS store? That's why you don't have apps on WP/WinRT! Is not worth as much to develop an app for them as is for iOS and Android. Would have made more sense if there was one single store for both WP and RT, but MS did not learned anything from Google with the Honeycomb failure.