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Apple’s iTunes reaches 1.5 billion downloads in one year
14-Jul-2009
Written by: Sari N. kent
Apple’s Application online store, iTunes, arrived at 1.5 billion downloads in just one year’s time thanks largely to the sensation caused by both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Apple announced Tuesday that their iTunes App Store had hit a landmark number of 1.5 billion downloads, just after the popular app store’s 10th anniversary.
According to an article on cnet.com, “Apple announced . . . that after a year in existence, its App Store has sold 1.5 billion applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.”
In a press release, [Steve] Jobs said, “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality. With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”
Presently, the App Store offers more than 65,000 apps in 77 countries. The store’s accomplishment can be attributed to the more than 40 million iPhones and iPod Touches that have shipped out so far. This grand achievement has prompted a slew of other major tech companies to launch their own mobile stores such as Microsoft and Google, while Nokia, LG and Verizon currently have stores in development.
The cnet.com article also mentions the problems that the App store faces aside from its triumph, “Many developers still appear flummoxed by the sometimes ambiguous policies for creating applications and the inconsistencies in how they're applied. For example, MLB At Bat, which streams live baseball games, gets the stamp of approval from both Apple and AT&T, the exclusive carrier, but SlingPlayer Mobile from Sling Media.”
Yet, those same bewildered developers continue to create applications for both the iPhone and iPod Touch and as the technology world stands at the present time, Apple’s App store remains the best possible way for mobile developers to get their applications out into the consumer marketplace.
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