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Apple: “customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps”

By on December 12, 2011 at 9:24am in Mobile News

Apple announced this morning that the “revolutionary” App Store has over 500,000 available apps, up from 425,000 in July. In the last 3-years iOS users (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) have downloaded over 18 billion apps (it was 15 billion apps in July), and Apple is seeing the trend continue with over 1 billion apps downloaded every month.

In the press release Apple stated that “Apple revolutionized the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.”

It’s closest competing app store is Google’s Android Market – unofficially having over 319,000 available apps. Recently, Google announced they passed over the 10 billion app downloads milestone, on pace themselves with “a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month”.

Source: Apple

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Discussion

16 comments for “Apple: “customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps””

  1. U sure it wasnt 18 billion CRapps?

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    Posted by wewewi | December 12, 2011, 9:40 am
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  2. Any 10 cents app or free app celebration for Apple?

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    Posted by JL | December 12, 2011, 9:40 am
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  3. Good for them. Good for the developers.

    I’d be interested to see the combined sales of androids marketplace and other third party vendors, like amazon, and how it compares.

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    Posted by briggs | December 12, 2011, 10:05 am
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  4. Weee… another pissing contest.

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    Posted by Marc | December 12, 2011, 10:13 am
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  5. actually they have 18 billion because, when you buy an app, you have to download it again, or pay for it again if you don’t back up your phone and get a newer one, or you old one breaks etc. clever eh?

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    Posted by steve | December 12, 2011, 10:16 am
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    • Actually once you buy an app you can redownload it as many times as possible for free. You can even download the app on unto 5 devices for free.

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      Posted by Rio | December 12, 2011, 10:46 am

  6. LOL – Notice how many times they use “app” in that statement, it’s as much an attempt to claim copyright of that term as it is a newsrelease.

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    Posted by Canadaboy | December 12, 2011, 10:18 am
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  7. Hey, hey! Over here!! Look over here!! We sell lots of apps too!
    …
    They’re doing what for 10 days? Oh wow, that’s nice of them.
    …
    Hey!! Hey! we sell lots of apps too!

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    Posted by Anthony E. | December 12, 2011, 10:23 am
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  8. Isn’t this announcement for their PC app store, rather than mobile?

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    Posted by Simon Sage | December 12, 2011, 10:28 am
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    • Ah, nevermind, the wording is just weird. It would be helpful if they said “iOS App Store” in the release rather than just eschewing “Mac”.

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      Posted by Simon Sage | December 12, 2011, 10:49 am

  9. It’d be interesting to see how many variants of fart & tip apps there are… and how many downloads they’ve had.

    I swear there’s a fart and tip app in every language, including Klingon! :P

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    Posted by Alpha | December 12, 2011, 11:41 am
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  10. Usually for these counts, would an app update count as a download…?

    If I’m using APPX v.1.0 than get all 100 interim version in to v2.0, would it it count that I have downloaded 100 apps…??

    If so… these numbers totally make no sense since it would imply that the more updates there is for an application, the more it’s good for the OS…!

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    Posted by FOG | December 12, 2011, 3:29 pm
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    • no it doesn’t work that way. use your brain next time!

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      Posted by Bade | December 12, 2011, 3:40 pm

    • Hey bade, I hope you do feel better about yourself insulting someone freely with no reason…

      get a life

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      Posted by FOG | December 12, 2011, 3:56 pm

  11. @Bade: look at your iTunes account history next time: this count, does indeed, count application updates as downloads. Fortunately, if you have, say, 5 devices and you download the update 5 times, it only counts as 1 download since the update is “purchased” for $0.00.

    If they count every single download to every single device, this number would balloon very, very quickly. Unless, of course, they are already doing that.

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    Posted by PhuFighter | December 12, 2011, 5:50 pm
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