Apple has announced that the App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch has now seen more than 2 billion downloads of applications, with a half billion programs in the last quarter alone.
In addition, the company revealed that the total number of apps in the store currently exceeds 85,000, and that they are now available to more than 50 million customers in 77 countries.
AppleInsider does a fine job crunching the numbers. Most noteworthy fact is that the App Store hit 1 billion downloads on April 23 of this year and 1.5 billion last July, which means the rate of daily downloads is quickly accelerating.
Anyone want to make a bet for when the number of downloads will top 3 billion?
Hats off to Apple. Waiting to see the magic figure of 100K.
There is an AppStore Search engine to help find all these apps:
http://www.uquery.com
I think it is couple of Apple fans downloading 2 billion times. Around 75-90% of the download are in the US by around 1-2 million at most regular Apple users, I think
. Apple has a long way of dominating the phone business around the world.
Apple is now dominating smartphone market.And it will by next year.Now China also in that race and UK and other European county also,becuase no more exclusive partnership with carriers in europe and china.
Actually Casey, the iPhone does OK if not spectacularly outside the US and is outsold by Nokia even on O2 in the UK.
Mark,,,becuase other Company have their lots of models and Apple has only one iPhone.So that makes the difference brother.Becuase of iPhone Nokia is loosing its ground in Europe.Read the news baby.
Actually, Casey, I read the sales figures.
Oh yeah, and one Nokia model – the 5800 – beats or equals iPhone sales in the UK.
One model, Casey. Think about it.
See, that’s the problem with the iPhone hype – it just doesn’t stack up. Here’s the iPhone’s sales – and note the split into three models as opposed to Apple’s disingenuous summing them together not to mention counting in PMP sales! I mean 50 million customers? No. Nothing like that because a good number of those previous models are owned by the same customers.
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50% of these sales are in the US. That means the remaining sales – which are in the key EMEA markets – are um… err… OK. I mean they’re good but not spectacular.
So no, Casey, I don’t read the news and the hype and the bullshit. I read the sales figures and because I do that I can peak behind the curtain and see that the Wiz ain’t a Wiz at all.
“Around 75-90% of the download are in the US by around 1-2 million at most regular Apple users, I think
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If you think the average US Apple user has a thousand apps on their phone….
This doesn’t include App updates either.
It will reach soon to 100K Apps and 2.5 billion downlaod,becuase China is getting iPhone in october.And next year with new iPhone and more carriers will support iPhone,it will unstopable.
I think Apple will launch next iPhone with 5-8 Mega Pixel Camera,more bettery life,HD support,Front camera with ichat,upto 64 GB storage,1 Ghz processor and 512 MB -1 GB ram.
wow.. hundred of this came from me.. haha
Awsome.It is really nice to have iPhone or iPod Touchwith more than 85000 apps support.30000 Games.
In leass than 6 months it will reach 3 Billion mark…
It took less than 6 months for the second billion (158 days). The refresh helped but I would say with China and Holiday season where gift cards will be applied to app purchases (more than new units will be sold), I would venture 4 months.
It is awsome to have more than 85000 Apps support with iPhone and iPod Touch.And 30000 games.
Its amazing how they entered such a competitive niche and just took over. I am very interested to see how Android is going to compete. If they can create a more friendly environment for developers to create, and market their appstore to bring in an audience they might have a chance. Its rare to hear a iphone dev say something good about the iphone development approval process etc.
Developer are too busy counting their profit ,I guess.Android hase a good chance too.Becuase they have so many handset with them and nice platform.
But poor microsoft has no chance at all.RIM,Androis and iPhone will distroy WinMo.
Apple has set the standard in terms of making the iPhone essentially a full computer with the easiest and most reliable application discovery and install process on Earth.
As a result, most new mobile application developers (including ourselves with http://www.CloudProfile.com) include the iPhone as at least one of the launch options if not the first and foremost. As an app developer, you know you can create a great customer experience and reliably get it into customers hands as long as you get through the app approval process.
Hopefully Android, RIM, and Windows Phone will follow suit. But regardless of what they do, Apple will keep accelerating in the meantime.
One other point re: above, for myself I have noticed that the apps are definitely not a novelty. I would guess that on average I try 50-10 new apps per month. While I don’t use 80% of the apps I download more than a few times, there is a solid 10-20% that become regular staples for me – that means a new app or two per month that I end up using regularly.
I agree on all points.
The App Store model has been such a breakthrough in discovering/buying/using iPhone apps that I wonder if Apple will bring it to OSX (minus the approval process) – I’ve marveled recently at how *archaic* finding and buying a game or app for my Macbook felt in comparison.
E.J. – I completely agree with you. This should be the way to discover and buy apps for your computer too as we still have a ways to go before everything is in the cloud
Well they didn’t reveal any financial figures which is a bit interesting and a little suspicious. Like total amount spent on app purchases.
I’m guessing the percentage of developers actually making decent profits are pretty low since people are cheapskates (or simply used to free web content) and the prices are low. There were some nice success stories at the beginning but are they continuing?
Still, a pretty strong amount of content optimized for a mobile UI which is good for users.
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” – Steve Balmer April 29, 2007
http://www.usat...orum-usat_N.htm
hahahahaa,,,poor stupid baldman….
To be fair, the quote came from Balmer. What did we expect?
So exited to see the App store performing so well regardless of the peeps who are seeing serious down time between App submit to processed and down loadable. I imagine by the time we see or hear rumors of the iPhone 4g we will have hit the magic 100k app mark. 3 billion downloads? I give it 3 months.
I don’t care if they have 10 billion downloads tomorrow, how much is the average developer making by being part of the app store? From what I keep reading it is little to none.
Why do I care about the average developer? The average developer is… well… average. There’s a slew of mediocre apps and worse which are rightfully not making a thing. The idea that “average” developers should become huge moneymakers with this is anathema to me.
true .. buts its like saying small and medium businesses in the real world should just shut shop and not bother competing with large scale businesses!
if youre hosting an “economy”, you should also create a business environment that works for the tail-end too!
Great points! Especially about the iPhone economy.
Considering that the article is about “85,000″ apps and they have been downloaded “2 Billion times”… Don’t you think that the majority of this boasting is based on “the average developer”.
I also never said anything about the average developer getting rich. Now with that said, the average developer also happens to occasionally make the “exceptional” app.
no one will ever use these apps. appstore is officially like cyberspace 99% garbage.
Any idea how many are paid vs how many are free and what the average price of a paid app is?
Would be interesting to know the revenue generated from paid apps
The curve for the number of apps is exponential. How many Android phones are on the market?
What makes Apple so appealing is that the folks who cannot buy an iPhone (bc ATT is such a monthly rip off) can just buy a Touch.
I can’t wait until there are 100,000,000 devices out there globablly.
They forgot to mention that there are 86,000 apps waiting to be reviewed.
Wish Apple would reveal how much $$ they are making in app sale commissions. What % of that is paid apps and what % are free apps.
Free app makers! Why are you wasting your precious time? (I can see why for some big brands or web services going for traction.. but why bother making a free ifart, or whatever)
I think Apple should halt free app sales that are not for web services. or halt them altogether.
Why does anyone make free software?
What is the # of Apps deleted? I know for a fact I’m at at least 20 to 1 ratio of downloads to apps worth keeping.
So 2 billion downloaded but 1.8 billions deleted after 1st use.
Way too much junk mixed in now and cookie cutter apps with the same UI but with 100 different “versions”.
And yes .. I’d like the paid app vs. free app breakout so see what is really going on. The only player making out is Apple – but we all knew that already.
and yet it’s same apps that are in the top listings month in, month out. clearly there is a problem here…
We have full reviews on over 35,000 of them if you’re interested.
85k apps is clearly too many. I agree with others here that there is way too much junk. Time to start cutting some of them.
Never mind apps, how much TV, movie and music content are they selling? That’s probably a much bigger $ number.
85,000 apps is nice and everything, but they are largely inaccessible considering the lack of sorting and filtering options. The community is allowed to rate apps but there is no way to sort them by rating or anything else for that matter. So how am I supposed to find the best app or possible apps for what I need? Considering the age of the app store there should be a plethora of ways to slice and dice the apps by sorting, filtering, etc… Apple needs to put users in control. We have knowledge of 85k apps but as a user we are stuck with the top 25 and a search box. Is it just me or is this just absurd???!!!
I guess here are some of that, can sotre application as many as you want…. awesome prices.
http://www.just...arket.aspx?ag=3
2 billion downloads … including a few hundred million farts
A very nice stat by Apple!
Love to see more apps
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Yeah apple always introduces nice apps. What apps you want get it here. http://www.just...tions.aspx?ag=3