Nokia has their Ovi Store while RIM and Palm have the BlackBerry App World and App Catalog respectively, and just recently, Microsoft announced that their Marketplace will be ready to accept app submissions on July 27th. Even though each one can boast of their unique take on the mobile app store, there will only be one that can lay claim to being the first, and that’s the Apple App Store.
Now, after a year of being in the business, they’ve managed to get over 100,000 developers on-board, over 65,000 apps on the store, and over 1.5 billion downloads to date. With combined sales for both the iPhone and iPod Touch totaling 40 million, that’s an average of 37.5 downloads per device and each app has been downloaded for an average of 23,077 times. Needless to say, the App Store has truly been a successful venture for Apple.
This, in turn, will be the figures the other app store upstarts in the market are aiming to beat. It’s a pretty tall order for them, and we’ll definitely be checking on their progress after a year’s time to see if they’ve managed to accomplish this or not.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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July 16th, 2009 at 5:41 am
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August 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
[...] over their stringent but inconsistent approval process for apps that will be featured in their App Store, but it seems that things are turning for the better. Word is that Apple is now reconsidering their [...]
August 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
[...] nothing stopping them from going beyond this and using this as a platform to take on the Apple’s App Store head on. The rep showing off the Zune HD in the video was asked if an SDK was going to be released, [...]
August 31st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
[...] Apple has a huge one, Palm has a little one, Nokia has a decent looking one, and Microsoft, well, we’re still waiting for them to finally reveal theirs to the public. What are we talking about? It’s app stores of course. Aside from those we’ve already mentioned, you can now also add Samsung to that growing list as they’ve just announced their Application Store set to be launched on September 14th. It will initially be available in the UK and France will roll out to Germany, Spain and 30 more countries thereafter. Sadly though, only two devices will be compatible with this new service at launch time, the Samsung Omnia and Omnia HD in particular. Both the upcoming Omnia 2 and Omnia Lite will follow later on. More than 300 apps will be readily available when it goes live next this month, but they are, however, already boasting that it will top 2,000 when 2009 comes to a close. With industry giants like Gameloft, Electronic Arts, and TAITO already on-board Samsung’s latest venture, we’re pretty sure they won’t have a hard time reaching that goal of theirs. [...]
September 28th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
[...] way to achieving this amazing feat since it already had 1.5 million downloads to its name when it turned 1 back in July. Back then, there were a total of 65,000 apps available. Now, there are 85,000 iPhone [...]