Apple touts App Store success but shies away from TV apps
Apple used its media event in San Francisco today to provide official updates on its app store offering, whilst the vendor also upgraded its TV service but appeared reluctant to join industry momentum uniting such services with apps. In just over two years since launch, Apple’s App Store has created a new business model for the mobile industry and now boasts 250,000 apps on offer and more than 6.5 billion downloads (that’s 200 apps every second)…
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Apple’s App Store downloads top 2B
Apple has announced that more than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store since launch last year. The largest applications store in the world now offers more than 85,000 apps.
Apple has announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The company claims that the store experiences 10,000 downloads a day across 77 countries.
Apples App Store downloads top 3B
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Moto preps application store launch
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