CUPERTINO, CA - It's no coincidence that Apple chose the same day that Google unveiled its Nexus One smartphone to announce that their insanely popular iTunes App Store has surpassed three billion apps downloaded. Steve Jobs went straight for the throat of iPhone competitors with a taunting boast in his statement to the press.
"Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we've ever seen before," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."
It's truly amazing that the App Store launched only 18 months ago in tandem with Apple's iPhone 3G in July of 2008. The store quickly reached the 1 billion download mark nine months later. Within a short five months the App Store doubled in downloads, surpassing the 2 billion mark on September 28th.
Just 98 days later Apple is celebrating 3 billion downloads which amounts to a fantastical 21,258.5 thousand apps downloaded per minute or roughly 30, 612, 244 apps per day. There are currently over 100,000 apps populating the App Store, which did not happen without Apple having to battle through several very public controversies surrounding their App Store approval policies.
While the disheveled line-up of competitors scramble to compete with the iPhone hardware, Apple continues to update the software and grow its empire of applications, continually making the iPhone even better than it was just two minutes ago. That's definitely something to brag about.
[via Yahoo Finance]
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