Since opening in 2008, there are more than 25 billion apps downloaded from the iOS Apps Store of Apple. The manufacturer reached the milestone Saturday morning and gave the user that the 25 billionth app binnenhaalde a giftcard of $ 10,000.
Apple had already weeks a counter on their site that the number of downloads from the App Store owner. Saturday morning reached the counter, the number of 25 billion. “Soon you’ll be on this page and see who has the prize”, is on the iTunes page of Apple.
The App Store was opened in July 2008. The opening coincided with the introduction of the iPhone 3G smartphone. Users of the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad have access to the downloadwinkel. The limit of 25 billion, after four years removed, but the growth of the number of downloads is accelerating: after a year of evaluation, Apple a billion downloads, and last year was the number of 10 billion is reached.
The main competitor of the iOS App Store is the Android Market: the latest statistics of them dating back to december 2011 and then the number of 10 billion reported. Apple’s App Store for Mac-based systems obtained at the end of last year one hundred million downloads and that was in less than a year’s time.
