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App Store hits 3 billion downloads: 10 million per day
By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
News Category: Apps + Games
Less than one hundred days after marking the two billionth download from the App Store, Apple today announced an additional one billion downloads, bringing the total to three billion during the Store’s less than 18-month life span. Equating to roughly 10,000,000 downloads per day, or 300 million downloads per month, this three billion download milestone demonstrates a dramatic acceleration in app acquisition, more than doubling the 4.7 million download per day average of the first two billion downloads. Apple has previously stated that its download figures are based on initial downloads and do not include updates, which would make the statistics far higher. “This is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a press release, which noted the App Store’s current availability in 77 countries. “And we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
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how many of these downloads are games? do you have any data on that?
Posted by prash on February 24, 2010 at 10:34 PM (PDT)