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App Store daily download rates now double December volumes

Apple announced Friday that App Store customers have downloaded more than 500 million applications to date, indirectly revealing that per-day downloads have more than doubled since early December.

When AppleInsider last visited the numbers early last month, Apple claimed over 300 million downloads.

Today's announcement means that in the 42 days since December 5th, another 200 million have been downloaded for an average rate of 4.76 million per day. That's more than twice the daily run-rate of 2.2 million apps per day witnessed last month.

Additionally, a banner on Apple's website reveals more than 15,000 apps have found their way to the App Store's digital shelves since July.



22 Comments

mj web 16 Years · 914 comments

Wo! Cue some asshole analyst cutting Apple's target to $10? Come out from under your rock, Kathryn Hubbert!

aaarrrgggh 18 Years · 1607 comments

Good luck finding apps among the 15k though! Also, is it just me or are some apps grossly overpriced? (HP-12 emulator which is basically a port of the ROM for $20? To mimic my HP-48/49/50, you need to get the HP-12 and HP-15 for scientific and business functions... which sets you back $40!!!)

booga 21 Years · 1081 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh

Good luck finding apps among the 15k though! Also, is it just me or are some apps grossly overpriced? (HP-12 emulator which is basically a port of the ROM for $20? To mimic my HP-48/49/50, you need to get the HP-12 and HP-15 for scientific and business functions... which sets you back $40!!!)

While I don't think things are as bad as you imply, there's certainly work to be done to let the valuable apps bubble to the top better. How many fart noise generators do we really need? (I don't even need my phone to accomplish that!)

scooter72 17 Years · 6 comments

Well, we better downgrade the stock then! 12 month target is now 50.

It amazes me that Apple continues to grow like a weed, yet the stock does the opposite.

WTF