Apple App Store reaches 50 billionth app download

Customer receives $10,000 for taking store to the milestone.
Apple recently announced the App Store was approaching its 50 billionth unique app download, a significant growth on launching with 500 apps in July 2008.
Two weeks later, and unsuspecting Say The Same Thingdownloader Brandon Ashmore pockets a $10,000 App Store gift card for taking the company to the benchmark.The 50bn milestone is based on uniques and excludes re-downloads and updates.
Customers download more than 800 apps from the App Store per second, which is equivalent to over two billion a month.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s SVP of internet software and services, said: "Apple would like to thank our incredible customers and developers for topping 50 billion apps downloaded.
"The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers. We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years."
The App Store now boasts more than 850,000 apps, 350,000 iPad-only apps, 23 categories and a reach in 155 countries. Check out the Top All-Time most popular free and paid apps.

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