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App Store Hits Ten Billion Downloads [Updated]

frunkis54 said:
it isn't that suprising of a number if you think about it. how many iphones have been sold to date. i can't find it right now but it is probably around 70-80million. divide that by 10billion so every iphone user has bought around 125 or so apps
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As far as I can remember, there are 160 million iOS devices so far.
You also have to take into account that many downloaded applications were/are not "fit for purpose" and get deleted relatively shortly after the download. A more interesting statistic would therefore the number of applications "in use", but that's difficult to determine.
 
I wonder if the winner will get a congratulatory call from Steve Jobs, like the previous winners of these contests did.
 
"Only" $75M/month for Apple?

That's 5 Billion apps in 6 months. Using round numbers, if around 1 in 10 apps is paid and the average paid app's price is around $3, then Apple's 30% cut only comes to 75M per month. Compare against the reported $26B in revenue last quarter and the whole app store is contributing under 2%.

Any recent and better estimates around?
 
Yay! First time for someone not in the US to win one of these things! I was starting to think that it was impossible for people to win in other countries.

Seeing as it's meant to be a $10000 card, will he get just that, or will it be an equivalent amount in £GBP? Knowing apple I bet they will make it 15% less because of the "cost of business" in the UK. ;)
 
firewood said:
That's 5 Billion apps in 6 months. Using round numbers, if around 1 in 10 apps is paid and the average paid app's price is around $3, then Apple's 30% cut only comes to 75M per month. Compare against the reported $26B in revenue last quarter and the whole app store is contributing under 2%.

Any recent and better estimates around?
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If I can remember correctly when the iPhone 4 was announced Apple said that they have paid out 2 Billion in App Store revenue, so might be able to extrapolate from that.
 
So did the countdown clock really bear any relationship to when the 10b app was going to be downloaded?

the counter hit 10b at aprox 3 min to 11pm in NZ time (i.e 1 am in LA).

I also noted that when I had the NZ, Australian and US Apple pages open there was up to 10,000 discrepancy between the sites, and the last 50,000 seems to be down-loaded simultaneously.

I bet the real 10b App was downloaded several hours earlier and they just had the counter going to rake in several hundred thousand dollars from people around the globe spending a buck or two getting an app trying to will.
 
So the winner, being in the UK, will receive a US iTunes card?

Can she redeem it on the UK Store at the current exchange rate (or the usual Apple-adjusted rate)?
 
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zin said:
So the winner, being in the UK, will receive a US iTunes card?

Can she redeem it on the UK Store at the current exchange rate (or the usual Apple-adjusted rate)?
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I'm guessing they get an equivalent amount adjust from the usual rate on the appstore.

That said, a 99c song in iTunes is NZ$1.79, but a 99c app in NZ is NZ$1.29.
 
I stayed up when it was at 9,999,000,000, but then I fell asleep, so I missed the last few. XD
 
I've certainly done my part... Ironically though, I think I've bought very few during the promotion period. It started after the New Year, right?
 
displaced and his girlfriend (whose name escapes me, sorry) are from Orpington. It'd be funny if an MR member won the prize, even if they haven't posted much recently :)
 
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