AppleInsider StaffApple hasn't announced that figure outright, but CNBC's Jim Goldman drew attention to one of the company's advertisement in the New York Times today that says iPhone users have "downloaded over 300 million" applications from the App Store since it launched in July.
The last time the iPhone maker provided an update on App Store downloads was October 21st, when it noted that users would download the 200 millionth app the following day. That means that in just 45 days shoppers have downloaded another 100 million apps, or well over 2 million per day.
Meanwhile, market intelligence firm comScore said Thursday that Apple.com was the 5th most trafficked retail site on Cyber Monday — the Monday immediately following Black Friday — with 3.68 million shoppers hitting its store pages, a 43 percent increase from average daily traffic during the month of November.
eBay (12.9 million) took top honors, followed by big-box retailers Amazon.com (9.2 million), Wal-Mart (6.76 million), and Target (4.8 million).
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That would probably double in one day if they added a MMS, video recorder, and tethering app.
The questions are;
How many of these are paid apps,
and,
what is the average price of those apps?
In the past we were told that it was about 50%.
If that's true now, and the average app costs, say, $3, that's about $3,300,000 a day, or about $1.2 billion a year!
That's pretty damn good for only about 12 million phones!
Imagine how many apps will go when there are 50 million out there.
I can see why the app store is considered to be much more important for apple than the iTunes store.
That's a lot of free "Level" APPs-
That's a lot of free "Level" APPs-
25% of the apps in the store are free. The other 75% are paid apps. I paid for my level app, and it's very good, and helpful.
As I said, if it still holds up, about 50% of the downloads are paid. I've been reading that the average app sells for about $3.
Apple should consider having an app store for the shareware apps it lists. There are many that I have wanted to buy but I don't want to give some company I never heard of my personal information and credit card number. I'd rather give it to Apple and then have Apple send the company the payment.