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Apple Approaches 1 Billion Downloads

Abril 10th, 2009

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched a clock that is rapidly ticking up to mark the one-billionth iPhone application download. The countdown reveals the lightening fast pace that applications are being downloaded from the nine-month old mobile store.

As of 3:30pm PST today, the count stands at over 930 million downloads.

In addition, Apple also revealed a list of the top 20 paid and free applications of all time (see graphic to the left.)

1 Billion Application downloads in 9 months is a phenomenal number.

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27K apps and counting

Marzo 31st, 2009

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There are now more than 27,000 iPhone and iPod touch applications available via Apple’s App Store according to application analytics platform Mobclix.

As of Monday morning, the App Store boasts 27,131 applications in all; premium (paid for) titles now comprise 77.3% of all downloads. Games lead all iPhone categories with 6,276 titles, or 23.1% of total App Store downloads–entertainment apps follow at 3,682 apps (13.6%), then books with 2,450 apps (9%), utilities with 2,319 apps, (8.5%) education with 1,886 apps (7%) and Travel apps, which make up just 3.9% of App Store inventory.

Within the games selection, puzzle titles are the leading segment, with 17.9% of all games followed by arcade (11.3%), action (10.9%), family (8.3%) and kids games (6.5%).