iPhone App Store reaches 2 billion landmark!

The iPhone App Store has casually sauntered past the two billion apps sold barrier, Apple announced today. Let’s put that in digits: that’s 2,000,000,000 sold in under 15 months. We’ve crunched the numbers and come up with some stunning stats, so read on to see how fast those bikini babe and fart machine apps are flying off the shelves.

Apple’s iPhone App Store hit the 1 billion apps downloaded mark back in April, but the acceleration continues. Apple says it’s past double that now, which means at a base rate, calculated from the App Store being open for 418 days, iPhone and iPod touch owners are now downloading at a minimum rate of 55.37 apps per second: it’s likely the actual figure is much higher, and certainly up on the estimated 47.6 back in July.

Apple doesn’t break it down between paid and free apps on the iPhone App Store, but considering there are more than 50m iPhone OS users out there, the average downloaded per person is now 40, or two and a half screens of apps.

As more and more manufacturers and phone networks get in on the app store game, the trendsetter is pulling away. Can anyone hope to catch up with the iPhone App Store? Google? Microsoft? Until Apple lifts its multitasking restrictions, we’re rooting for you.

(Via Electricpig)

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