Apple: 15,000 iPhone Apps, Half a Billion Downloads
Head over to Apple.com yet today? If you haven’t seen it already, a new hero image has taken it’s place boom smack in the middle of the home page and it’s announcement couldn’t be more mind-boggling: the App Store now includes over 15,000 iPhone applications, and iPhone users have downloaded apps more that 500,000,000 times.
Considering the App Store only launched 6 months ago, we’re reminded of what Steve Jobs said last quarter — that, in all his time at Apple, they’d never seen platform growth or attachment rates this fast and this furious.
How many apps do you think you’ve downloaded?
January 16th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
and they did a full page add on the back of the first section in the WSJ today for this too!
January 16th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Amazing job Apple! And good job developers as well!
January 16th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
How many? As the marines say, TMTC!
January 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The marines say 4 letters?
January 16th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I’ve easily downloaded over 1,000 applications and some of them repeatedly…
January 16th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
181
January 16th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
My iTunes App library says 124.
January 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Great post! Kudos to Apple. What I’d like to see now is a more manageable way to filter through those 15,000 apps to sift the wheat from the tares! How about a more robust filtering method?
January 16th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
I’m hoping many of these apps will be axed when Apple includes their own versions with the iPhone. The “To Do” apps alone make up at least 3,000 of them.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
My favorite is cut and paste app…no wait, I dreamed that.
January 17th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Any one want to guess the free vs. paid ratio of the half billion downloads? My estimate is about 5:1, and I think I am generous.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:24 am
just 81 apps.
January 18th, 2009 at 5:30 am
I’ve downloaded nearly 100, about 75% of them free. I wonder if we’ll ever see something similar on the desktop? Sure it’ll never be the “only” source on a desktop, but it’d be popular IMO. Maybe Apple could trial it for widgets in Snow Leopard.