App Store tops 1.5 billion downloads in first year
Following the Apple App Store’s 1-year anniversary this past Saturday, Apple has just released the official numbers encompassing the on-device portal’s performance through the first year of operation. To be quite frank, they speak for themselves:
- Over 65,000 apps
- Over 100,000 developers
- Over 1,500,000,000 downloads
The App Store, now available in 77 countries, is only available on two different devices of course — the iPhone and the iPod touch. With combined sales of around 40 million units at this point, each device is responsible for an average of 37.5 downloads and each app has been downloaded an average of about 23,077 times. Long story short… Apple crushed it.
Whooooo cares…why is this news???
That average is actually a low-ball estimate. The number of devices, of course, has been increasing over time yet the downloads number is a fixed value at the end of that “time”.
So, actually, a whole lot more apps per device (average) were downloaded.
> …Whooooo cares…
Since Palm won’t tell us how many Pres have been sold (and we know why they won’t, huh?) we have to guess. Using the number of applications downloaded per device for a “similar” device might give us an indirect handle on how many Pres have been sold that is better than simply saying “All Pre owners have downloaded Pandora even if they don’t use it and ~170,000 copies have been downloaded ipso facto roughly speaking about 200,000 Pres have been sold to date”.
1.4billion fart apps have been downloaded…
Because it’s very impressive.
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).
really what this comes down to is many people must be re-doing their phones i know pleny and setup pleny of iphones and even though the apps have to be redownloaded most of the times due to the iphone backups failing and or the apps are incompatibale with the currect version. hence the overdownloading of applications this is effing bloatware or in this case bloatstats. Yet you people running around all giddy for unusually unintersting things. It makes me so embarrased to carry an iphone most of the time seeing the behavior of majority of mac folks. the mac koolaid is your only means of sustinance. Mac folks were once deemed very intelligent. The intelligence is slowly being shredded.
And in other news 1.2 billion Apps deleted after first use.
Now if they could only add push email, slider keyboard (-apple knows how to keep a device as thin as possible),and on a more reliable network, they got themselves a complete winner.
@ warhed: I don’t think that is entirely accurate. You know that at least a quarter of those are the flashlight, sound grenade, and other bodily functions apps
Its not really fair game when comparing apple App store and Blackberry Apps. Most of the apps on the Blackberry are being downloaded via third party sites vs the appl App store is the only place you can get Apps. I’m not trying to say that Blackberry comes close to the I-apps, the point though, when you would try to calculate a percentage and how much the Blackberry share of the apps really are, you’d be plenty surprised.
In other unrelated news, “farting” applications make up over 1.3 billion downloads. Oh how far we’ve come with technology!
Apple fanboys rejoice! All these app downloads mean none of you have lives. WOOOO HOOOO!!! Be proud! How about going for a jog without your Iphone. Maybe even a real date! Not one of your Sims dates. A real life flesh and blood chic. Oh wait thats right……. your mom will be pissed your brought her home. Here’s a great idea boys. Move out of your moms basement.
We all know that won’t happen so keep downloading those apps.
Who mentioned BB apps?
That was in response to JoeTour.
Is it asking too much that when I hit the reply button it actually appears to reply to something?
@ joetour
Why do we need a physical Keyboard? I have no problem with the one on screen and in landscape mode it gets better. hey how do you crop a pic on your blackberry or edit a video, can you load directly to youtube? Hows the browser working out for you oh I have 5 bars almost everywhere I go in NY but I am just not special enough to have a tour, or its twin the curve…
TimTim:
Wow talk about starting a debate where the numbers most likely won’t fall on your side. Comparing Apple Fanboys vs PC/NonApple Fanboys on whos going on dates with women… really???? I’d be willing to bet that Apple has a larger percentage of their users being women than non-Apple tech companies as well.
Again I have no numbers but thats like D&D players saying magic the gathering players need to get lives.
1.2 Billion fart Apps downloaded you say eh?
@ malfoy
anything is relative. just disecting the numbers, analyzing it in terms of the big picture here.
@ david
yeah, every1 is repeating it, where does that crap come from? fart apps?
@ Maverick… can’t speak for BB users, but were you just advertising the HTC Magic/myTouch?
Why yes. yes you were. Thanks!
Ah, or good thing you specified not having a physical keyboard… I might have thought you were talking about the G1 or Touch Pro 2!
And the physical keyboard thing is a moot point. Some people like it, some people don’t. That’s all preference and says nothing about the phone itself. Personally, I like having BOTH.
You allz just h@tin’ cuz Apples invented Apps. Apples pwns you nuts.
Amazing what some apple news can do to people..
First off I have an iphone 3G S but I don’t consider myslef a fanboy because I had enough restraint to not upgrade when the 3G came out. I see people here calling people names for being a fan boy uh jotour your a RIM fan boy personally I prefer apple I don’t need a physically jeyboard fully grown men have big fingers so when I have tested out small keyboards I end up hitting multiple keys with my phone if i hit to keys before I release the key I can slide to the proper key
that should have ben p[hysical keyboard, I didn’t proof read (i am not on my phone right now I am at my desk at work)
*physical
Malfoy,
I’m a Marine. Trust me D&D and magic the gathering will not be happening. Not on our base. It’s so funny how you Apple fanboys love your phones. I don’t love a phone. I love my wife,my kids, the men that have my back in the desert and my M16.
I would love to see some of you basement boys get out and do something besides downloading apps all day. Plus you guys come on here and fight over what phone is better. I wish BG would start easing up on phone info and concentrate on other gadgets. I guess if that happened all you Apple fanboys would go nuts without your daily fix. It’s a sad sad world we live in when Apple fanboys freak out because Walmart started selling their Jesus phone. Guys grow up and get out of the basement!