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Vincent Ferrari
01-20-2009, 12:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10144326-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware' target='_blank'>http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109...ed&subj=Webware</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple announced Friday that over 500 million apps have been downloaded from its App Store. Amazingly, the company only reached 300 million downloads on December 5, meaning its App Store has enjoyed accelerating growth since the holiday season. The announcement, which was made in the form of an advertisement on Apple's home page, also claims that the App Store now features more than 15,000 apps."</em></p><p><img height="419" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1232370804.usr18053.jpg" width="283" /></p><p>No wonder everyone is scrambling to come up with their own version of the App Store.&nbsp; It works.&nbsp; Palm is doing it, RIM is doing it, and Microsoft is supposedly looking into it.&nbsp; I'd say that's a testimony to the App Store's success as much as the number of apps that made their way out of the store and onto people's devices.</p>
Pony99CA
01-20-2009, 10:29 PM
No wonder everyone is scrambling to come up with their own version of the App Store.&nbsp; It works.&nbsp; Palm is doing it, RIM is doing it, and Microsoft is supposedly looking into it.&nbsp; I'd say that's a testimony to the App Store's success as much as the number of apps that made their way out of the store and onto people's devices.
500 million is a crazy number, but how much of that was freeware?

Handango (who claims to be the original mobile app store (http://corp.handango.com/PressRelease.jsp?siteId=1&CKey=1_PRESSRELEASE_PR011609)) says they've had over 100 million apps downloaded, but with an average paid value of $20 per application.

The Apple app store also wasn't the first on-device app store. Handango had its InHand (http://store.handango.com/client/Home.jsp?siteId=1&tab=4&devId=0) before the iPhone even came out, I believe. Of course, Apple may have the first manufacturer-created app store.

Steve

P.S. You didn't mention Android, which also has an app store.