Apple iTunes App Store celebrates 2nd birthday

Apple launched its service supporting mobile phone sales two years ago iPhone and multimedia game player iPod touch, iTunes App Store. Although the press release says that iTunes App Store was officially launched on July 11, 2008, most insiders perceive the true anniversary as July 10.7.2008, XNUMX, when it was published this press release. On the first day of sales, it included App Store 500 apps, two years later, contains more than 225 apps. Last year, it paid out Apple developers over one billion dollars in sales through iTunes App StoreUsers have downloaded more than 4 billion apps in two years!

In total, more than 4 billion apps have been downloaded. To iTunes App Store 15 new applications are added weekly. 000% of applications are approved within one week of submission. Apple, those that do not pass within a week contain an error or crash. Apple earned more than $10 million from apps in the first 600 months, expects more than $2 billion in iTunes revenue this year App Store. Currently selling Apple Inc. one iPad every 3 seconds and will be in 19 more countries by the end of July. Each iPad user has downloaded an average of 17 apps to their device. In the first 65 days, users have downloaded more than 5 million books, or 2,5 books per iPad. 5 of the 6 largest publishers in the US share their books on iBooks Store.To iTunes App Store More than 40 unique developers contribute, and many of them have built their careers and livelihoods on it. Congratulations to the company Apple Inc. for what it did with iTunes App Store prove it, we just sincerely hope that it doesn't use the same model for Mac OS X. Look at the developers who openly talk about how iTunes is making App Store were able to stand on their own feet, start families and some even become rich, their stories are here.

With thanks and congratulations Letem svetem Applem!