Apple Digest: Apple App Store Tops 10 Billion Downloads! (Video) *350K apps available for 160M+ iOS users*

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Apple App Store Tops 10 Billion Downloads! (Video) 350K apps available for 160M+ iOS users

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Apple App Store Tops 10 Billion Downloads!

Apple Inc. announced on Saturday, January 22, 2011 that 10 billion downloads had been reached on the Apple App Store. This announcement comes after the announcement of 1 million unit sales was reached for Apple TV (December 21, 2010) and 1 million downloads in the first day the Apple Mac App Store was open (January 6, 2011). Apple issued the following press release:

Apple App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion

CUPERTINO, California—January 22, 2011—Apple® today announced that more than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store℠ by the more than 160 million iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ users worldwide. The 10 billionth app downloaded, Paper Glider, was purchased by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 10 Billion Apps, Gail Davis will receive a $10,000 iTunes® Gift Card.

“With more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two and a half years—a staggering seven billion apps in the last year alone—the App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The App Store has revolutionized how software is created, distributed, discovered and sold. While others try to copy the App Store, it continues to offer developers and customers the most innovative experience on the planet.”

The revolutionary App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users in 90 countries around the world, with more than 60,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.

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About Apple Inc.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.