[Gizmo - http://gizmo.web.id] App Store surpasses 40 billion downloads, with 20 billion in 2012

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Apple on Monday announced that the App Store has eclipsed 40 billion downloads
since its inceptionwith nearly 20 billion of those downloads coming in 2012. By
Macworlds back-of-the-envelope calculations, thats close to 800,000,000,000
individual unhappy birds alone.

Among the other numbers Apple crowed over in its announcement: There are more
than 500 million active iTunes accounts in the App Store, and Apple saw more
than 2 billion app downloads in the month of December alone. Developers have
built more than 775,000 apps, Apple says, earning more than $7 billion in
payouts.

Apple stresses that the 40 billion total downloads is really as impressive as it
sounds; the company says that those numbers do not include re-downloads or app
updates.

In its release, Apple name drops a variety of hugely successful apps, including
Temple Run, Fipboard, Uber, and Action Movie FX.

The App Store launched in 2008 with 552 apps. If it continues to grow at its
current pace, experts predict that more than eleventy quadrillion apps will be
downloaded next Thursday. Approximately.


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