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Apple has just released a number heavy press release, here is what you need to know:
- Between the iPhone and the iPod Touch, there are now over 50 million devices on the market that run Apple’s iPhone OS
- There are more than 85,000 applications in the Apple App Store
- Over 2 billion applications have been downloaded from store
- There are now over 125,000 iPhone developers out there
And of course, two quotes from Steve Jobs:
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
Peter Kafka, from The Wall Street Journal did some maths to figure out that it took Apple a little over a year to reach the 1.5 billion download mark, which meant users were downloading apps at a rate of 4.1 million per day. From that point, it took only 76 days to hit 2 billion applications, so the rate of users downloading apps is now 6.6 million per day. Pretty impressive stuff.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
