• Apple's App Store Crosses 15B App Downloads, Adds 1B Downloads In Past Month

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    Thursday, July 7th, 2011

    Apple has just announced that the company’s 200 million iOS users have downloaded over 15 billion apps from its App Store, including both iPad and iPhone apps. The App Store currently includes more than 425,000 apps, with over 100,000 native iPad apps.

    In early June, Apple revealed that the App Store had seen 14 billion app downloads, so Apple has racked up a billion downloads in just one month.

    At that time, Apple also said that 15 billion songs have been sold from the iTunes Store, making it the number one music retailer in the world. And 130 million books have been downloaded from the App Store, with 225 million credit card accounts listed with iTunes.

    Apple has also paid out more than $2.5 billion to developers building off the iOS platform.

    Company: Apple
    Website: apple.com
    Launch Date: April 1, 1976
    IPO: NASDAQ:AAPL

    Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook Air) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod, the...

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