10 billion downloads for Apple App Store
p2pnet view P2P:- Every now and then Apple comes out with some nicely rounded figure on how many iPods it’s sold, say, or how many people are using iTunes, the iPod online loader, paid for by punters.
It never says how it arrives at these stats, and no one (in the lamescream media, at least) ever questions them.
It seems like only yesterday that Apple kicked off the iOS (mobile operating system) app page.
And already, Apple is claiming 10 billion — not million, but billion, which is one hell of a lot — downloads for the main app store.
That’s more than the world population.
Guess Apple employees must have been burning the midnight oil.
Like really burning it.
No need to stay tuned.
only yesterday – New Mac app store: ‘blood on the floor’, January 5, 2011
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January 22nd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
All these corporations! They are such a pack of liars! 10 billions? Ya my butt!
January 22nd, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Which one is this for? The Mac App Store, or the combine Mac/iOS App Store?
January 23rd, 2011 at 5:49 am
Wow it sure is disturbing how many idiots buy Apple junk so they can live in Apple’s little censored corner of the universe.
You would think the fact that these devices are locked-down six ways from Sunday would be a deal-breaker for most people, but I guess even that concept is over the head of the typical consumer these days.
I guess as long as they can get a facebook app and an american Idol app on the thing the dumb-azz pleebs are happy that they can pursue their brainless interests.
January 23rd, 2011 at 6:33 am
This would be iOS not Mac… and I guess it includes free apps (obv.) and as it’s about 100 apps per device sold I would also guess it includes updates. As an iPod Touch user I can say that sounds quite feasible. I don’t have 100 apps but easily 100 downloads overall.
Esp. the American Idol app, that gets updated all the time.
January 24th, 2011 at 8:45 am
I hope they also have a Hockey app and another app about Tim Hortons coffee.
Oh yeah and I also want a “s’port duh troops” app so I can mark-out to our storm-troopers that are out doing God’s work in the middle-east.
lulz
January 24th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229100083&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Apple’s iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. In just over two and a half years, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users have downloaded 10,000,000,000 applications for their iOS devices.
Apple’s iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. In just over two and a half years, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users have downloaded 10,000,000,000 applications for their iOS devices. The actual 10 billionth app downloaded is called Paper Glider and was purchased by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, U.K. Davis won a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
The statistics for Apple’s App Store are staggering. Apple claims that there are 160 million users of iOS devices. That means the average customer has downloaded about 62 applications. At the current rate, iOS users are downloading 206 apps every second, 12,360 per minute, 741,600 per hour, and 17.8 million apps per day.
January 25th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
How many java apps have been downloaded ?
More than 10 billion .. easy
How many windows apps have been downloaded in the same period ?
The apple stats are really not that impressive….
What is impressive is that apple have a monopoly , devices basically locked to a shop.
* couple of facts.
In 2008 was the Firefox Download Day, with more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
2 Billion Firefox Add-on Downloads! (july 2010 )