Tuesday, March 6, 2012

App Store reaches 25 billion downloads this week

App Store reaches 25 billion downloads this week. according to the apple It was downloaded by a consumer in China.


When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they are today, or that developers would create so many amazing apps for users of IOS," said Eddy Cue, VP of software and services internet.

The history of the App Store is amazing. He reached the first billion and a half downloads in July 2009, at 2 billion in September of that year, 3 billion in January 2010 and in January 2011 commemorating the 10 billion, and in July last year claimed to have beaten the house the 15 billion downloads of apps.

Currently holds 550,000 App Store applications, available in 123 countries. Only iPad are more than 170,000 native apps, designed for the screen size and the resources that a user wants tablet.

The company said the App Store has paid more than $ 4 billion to developers.

In a statement Apple has not even a peep about the Mac App Store, the App Store for Mac I've been curious to know how many will shop desktop. Probably became more important when the Lion out, since the system is distributed strongly in the store. With the arrival of the Mountain Lion thing tends to be more aggressive because the store will be the default center for installing apps on the system (to protect the users with the resource gatekeeper, Apple says).