Apple App Store manages 100,000,000 downloads in just 60 days
By Dave Parrack
Apple is currently holding its Let’s Rock event in San Francisco. For full coverage of all the event highlights, take a look at MAC.BLORGE. But the news I’m focussing on is the incredible success experienced by the Apple App Store: 100 million downloads in just the first 60 days.
The App Store is an application currently available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which was introduced alongside the iPhone 3G two months ago. It enables users to download applications for either device, both free and paid ones, via the iTunes store.
The Software Development Kit for the iPhone and the iPod Touch allows anyone to create an application and sell (or give it away free) through the App Store. While this has included some clever attempts to earn some easy money, such as the I Am Rich app, most of the applications available are useful or entertaining.
Now, just 60 days after launch, it has been announced by Steve Jobs that the App Store has managed 100,000,000 downloads. As Venture Beat reports, these kinds of numbers show that the App Store is a force to be reckoned with, and could be about to do for the mobile phone industry what iTunes did for the music industry.
The only concern for Apple is that the first month saw 60 million downloads, so in effect, there has been somewhat of a slowdown on the App Store. But with the hype built up around the launch of the iPhone 3G, and the desire of people to download any freebie they can get their hands on, the first month was always going to be the biggest for the App Store.
Jobs also stated that the App Store is now available in 62 countries, and amongst the thousands of applications available are 700 games. We’ve already looked at how the iPhone could become a games machine to rival the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, and Apple now seem keen on pushing that side of things.
The App Store has been an incredible success so far, but there seems to be a lot more to come. What’s the betting that the App Store will now be made available on more Apple products?
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