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Apple App Store reaches 1 billion downloads
By Fabio on Friday April 24th 2009 04:40 | Category: Web
Apple late Thursday billionth download from the App Store recorded. The App Store was a little more than nine months ago started as downloadwinkel software for Apple iPhone smartphone.
Apple already had a few weeks to the billionth download, which was reached Thursday. This is the App Store's most successful distribution of mobile downloads to date. There are a total of more than 25,000 apps in downloadwinkel Apple. Nokia Mosh, an experimental downloadwinkel of Nokia, has two years of its existence 350 million downloads achieved.
A calculation shows that about 3.5 million per day apps to download from the App Store. Converted that approximately forty per second. Moreover, there are peaks and valleys during the American holidays, the App Store is the most popular. A total of thirty million copies sold of the iPhone and iPod Touch. This means that each user on average about 33 applications have downloaded. Apple will not say how big the share is paid applications.
Meanwhile, the competition with similar initiatives: Blackberry App has World, Nokia with ovi Store, Microsoft Windows Mobile Marketplace and Google have already launched Android Marketplace. As at the end of this year all new smartphone OSes provides own downloadwinkel.
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