App Store averaging 5.4 million daily downloads
By Ronald O Carlson
The mothership continues to knock down milepost after milepost along the road to world domination. However, the company needs to stay focused (*cough*) with RIM and its 2,000 apps nipping at their heels.
Apple has announced that iPhone and iPod Touch users have download more than 1.5 billion apps from the App Store. Further, the company’s digital software store now includes 65,000 apps from over 100,000 registered iPhone Developer Program members.
“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Steve Jobs robustly, full of vigor. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”
The App Store is available in 77 countries to tens of millions of iPhone and iPod touch owners—more than 40 million worldwide.
Who will be first?
Back on April 13, Apple announced that users had downloaded over 1 billion apps, which means that in the intervening 92 days an average of a bit more than 5.4 million apps were downloaded every day. Moreover, assuming that Cupertino hasn’t increased its $1 million per day (i.e. announced last year), some $92 million in gross receipts were generated with $13.8 million accruing (15 percent) to Apple.
Which of Apple’s smartphone competitors—Nokia, RIM, Palm, Android, etc—will be the first exit the market? The easy answer here is Palm, but Nokia’s hasn’t been looking particularly healthy of late…
What’s your take?
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Apple sold its 1 billionth app on April 23, 2009. Apple passed 1.5 billion apps sold on July 14, 2009. That’s half-billion apps sold in 81 days, which means Apple is selling apps at the rate of 6.17 million per day, not 5.4 million per day. It’s likely even higher than that as Apple was averaging a little over 5 million per day for the period (99 days) before that.
July 15th, 2009
Also, Apple gets 30% of the revenue generated by the App Store, not 15%.
July 17th, 2009
Mark is right, Apple takes 30%.
July 19th, 2009
No wonder Apple needs to build a data center.