60 million Apps downloaded from iTunes App Store
While sheer numbers don’t tell the whole story, it’s safe to say that Apple’s iPhone App store is off to a relatively impressive start. Steve Jobs informed the Wall Street Journal that over 60 million applications have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store since its launch about a month ago. That amounts to around $30 million in sales on pace to $360 million by the end of the year which is, umm, nothing to scoff at. In slightly more disturbing news, Jobs also confimed the existence of the rumored remote kill switch, explaining that the company needs to retain the ability to dead malicious applications should they inadvertently make it through the vetting process. That’s all well and good, but we think Apple should put more effort into the actual screening to ensure that nothing unintended, malicious or otherwise, surfaces in the first place.
[Via Engadget Mobile]
Do those 60 million downloads equate to 60 million sales?
^ What do you think? As if handango or pocketgear have a 100% sales record. Yet, the $30M is in the bank.
Wow, BGR, good job of stating the obvious on the “put more effort into actual screening” line. If you hadn’t said it, I’m sure Apple would never have thought of it.
Well you dont see Handango or Pocketgear making a fuss over how many downloads they have do you?
^ These days, the only fuss Handango or Pocketgear make is how deeply and how many ways they’re screwing developers. As thin-skinned as they both are, I’m sure they’ve had tit-4-tat battles over downloads, without ever securing $30M in revenue in a single month.
Now imagine what those numbers would be if Apple would not limit itself to just one carrier per country.
“Do those 60 million downloads equate to 60 million sales?”
Are you suggesting that Apple is stuffing the channel?
Sure 60 million sound impressive, but exactly how many are free apps, and how many are updates to an already sold app. I noticed anytime I check for updates on my iTouch it indicates it is buying the app again even though its a free update.
So yeah I can see and believe that Apple is stating the download buts NOT the unique # of downloads.
On the BGR comment well its clearly NOT OBVIOUS to Apple to thoroughly check the apps before they go out the door and there have been issues since launch. Unless Apple intends to refund me my money if they “kill” an app remotely then they will have a real problem with a legitimate class action suit.
people need to read before posting such stupid comments. read the whole article or any of the other dozen articles about the numbers. they are roughly selling 1 million dollars worth of apps per day, that $$ not downloads, the 60 million is downloads…not hard people.
also ppcmd, the right to kill the app is there for malicious apps, if they wanted to use it for controversial apps then they would have used it already on netshare. troll on i guess.
still you should let th user have tha privillage of killing the apple >allp buodina an internal backdoor is a weakness itself wiating to be exploited. apple just did the work for people wholove finding an cracking exploits. the made a security hole by themselves intnetinally and they don’t even know it.
@Dtest54: Did you really have to say “Troll on”? You see immediately above this post what sheer stupidity that conjures up!
yes, and the stupidity is what makes the BGR comments interesting. You have the trolls, the idiots and the wannabes – without them it might be boring in here.
^ I’ll take boring facts and figures over trolls, idiots, and wannabes still playing their own makeshift version of dungeons-and-dragons from a couch in mom’s basement.
Wow these have got to be one of the most b*tchest comments I read in BGR in a long time. People are asking questions that are not stupid to some people and certain people just want to jump down their throat. What’s so hard about answering a question without being cranky. Its funny that the people calling other people trolls are the ones acting like trolls.