Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year

More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers

CUPERTINO, California—July 14, 2009—Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace with more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program.

“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”

The revolutionary App Store has more than 65,000 apps available to consumers in 77 countries, allowing developers to reach tens of millions of iPhone and iPod touch users around the world. The App Store works with both iPod touch and iPhone including the new iPhone 3GS, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. Apple has shipped over 40 million of these devices that run apps from the App Store.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

[via SlashGear]

Bump is a new iPhone application that has just been released. The idea of this application is to attempt to solve the problem of having to manually input a new contact to your phone.

All you have to do is open the application and create a contact card to share then you just choose what information that you want to trade then simply bump hands together. At the moment, this application only allows transfer of contact information.

[PC World, Product Reviews]

Apple awards Mulcahey a MacBook laptop, an iPod Touch, an Apple Time Capsule backup system and a $10,000 iTunes gift card.

Connor said he learned he won through an e-mail sent to his iPhone on Thursday as he was on the way home from baseball practice. The vice president of iTunes had written him personally to congratulate him.

Apple had apparently tried to call his home first, Connor said, “But my mom pretty much said, ‘I don’t believe you,’ and hung up.

“I was pretty surprised, but I felt sorry for all those other people who tried hard to win.”

Congratulations, Connor!

[via Courant]

Fortune’s Apple 2.0 wrote:

One of the factors feeding that growth, and in turn being fed by it, is the size of the App Store’s installed base. COO Tim Cook put it at 37 million — a fact, by the way, that gives analysts a fresh handle on the number of iPod touches in circulation. (Because Apple has reported sales of 21.17 million iPhones over the past 7 quarters, we now know that it has also sold at least 15.83 million iPod touches.)

[via Fortune's Apple 2.0]

As of today, nearly one billion apps have been downloaded around the globe. So we just want to say thanks — a billion. Download an app and you’ll automatically get the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Just go to the iTunes Store, browse the App Store, and download your best app yet.

In less than two days, Skype for iPhone has been downloaded more than one million times. This equates to approximately six downloads every second. Peter Parkes a Blogger with Skype said in a blog post, “this is a phenomenal performance, and we’re confident that it’s one of the fastest-downloaded iPhone apps ever. We’ll be back next week with an update, but for now, Skype on.”

This all went down on the 2nd of April after the initial release of the application. So if my maths serves me correctly, if the rate of downloading the app continues, hypothetically every iPhone user should have downloaded it within the next few weeks. Pretty good effort on Skypes behalf to have such a great turn around within days of releasing their app.

[via Skype]

In the top 100 applications for 2008, the new MyWeather integrates unit conversions in inches or millibars for pressure and Celsius or Fahrenheit. Notification is included with a network is not available. MyWeather Mobile uses Microsoft Virtual Earth technology to allow the viewing of weather in any part of the country.

MyWeather Mobile is a weather application with 36-hour temperature, precipitation and wind speed/direction graphs, 7-day forecasts, animated looping radar, and over 10,000 U.S. cities including Puerto Rico. You can also rotate the phone horizontally to view full-screen radar animation and 36 hour trend graphs. Available for both iPhone and iPod Touch.

[via I4U]

Apple’s App store is seeing more than 2 million applications downloads everyday. Even though people thought that the initial swell in applications downloads would eventually top off and slow down, the App Store is actually seeing more traffic flow than before.

It was not long ago that Apple advertised claims of 300 million downloads since the App Store opened. Just back on October 22nd Apple announced the 200 million download mark. At this rate, who knows when the daily downloads will start to peak? As more and more users download premium applications, Apple will see its residual iPhone income increase.

“It’s unbelievable,” says Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. “It’s a differentiator. We think in ‘09, it’s going to be a $1 billion market place and Apple will probably take about 30 percent of that. There’s virtually no operating expense for them. They just approve the apps.” Apple now has the most robust and integrated software and media platform in the mobile world with over 10,000 applications to choose from.

[Via CNBC]

Prior to this, you would have had to wait until the first monthly report was released. Also, download stats were available publicly for short period of time, but were removed because it was very easy to estimate a developer’s earnings. 

With these stats, developers can adjust their app prices to improve sales and make themselves more competitive in the market. And it’s only going to get more competitive from here.

[via MacRumors]