Exactly 9 years ago, on April 23, 2009, Apple's app store hit one billion downloads, less than a year after it was launched. Apple at the time rewarded a thirteen-year-old from Connecticut who had made an annual withdrawal from App Store. He took home products with a bitten apple worth a total of $13.
Connor Mulcahey received a $10 iTunes gift card, a 000GB iPod touch, a Time Capsule wireless hard drive, and a 32-inch MacBook Pro.
Until Apple sold a total of 37 million iPhones and iPod touches, which were the two devices that had access to App Store. There were about 35 thousand applications available for download. Just for comparison, to date the Californian giant has sold more than 1 billion iPhones and App Store contains approximately 2,1 million different applications.
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"Revolutionary App Store is a phenomenal hit with iPhone and iPod touch users around the world, and we would like to thank our customers and developers for helping us reach the stunning milestone of one billion app downloads,” he said then Phil Schiller, Vice President of Global Product Marketing at Appyou. "In nine months App Store completely change the mobile industry, and this is just the beginning.”
Apple used to celebrate major milestones in grand fashion. In 2004, he gave a 100-inch PowerBook, a 17GB iPod, a gift card for 40 iTunes songs and a personal phone call with Steve Jobs to one customer who made the 10 millionth download of a song from iTunes.
App Store has grown steadily and is still growing today. Do you remember the first application you downloaded from App Did they download the story? Share it with us in the comments below the article.
