Apple App Downloads Approach 1 Billion
Apple App Downloads Approach 1 Billion
Apple is close to hitting 1 billion downloads from its App Store and plans on a prize giveaway for whoever downloads the billionth application that includes a MacBook Pro and an iPod Touch. In the free apps category, Facebook and Google Earth have been the most popular downloads. In the paid apps category, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D tops that particular chart.
Apple has placed a counter on its Web site showing the number of downloaded apps, which is approaching the 1 billion mark. The company plans on giving away a MacBook Pro, an iPod Touch and other products to the individual who downloads the 1 billionth application.
At around 2:30 p.m. on April 10, heading into the weekend, the counter was rattling off 1,000 apps sales roughly every 12 seconds.
Independent developers’ contributions to Apple’s App Store have raised the number of available apps to more than 25,000, and it took eight months since the App Store’s July 2008 launch for the total number of downloads to surpass 800 million.
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