Josh Ong
Apple changed the counter on its homepage to a thank you page early on Saturday after it reached the 25 billion number. The graphic shows the App Store icon surrounded by icons of popular iOS apps, such as Twitter, Yelp, Instagram, eBay and Fruit Ninja.
"A billion thanks. 25 times over. The App Store has reached 25 billion downloads. Thanks for getting us there," the page read.
Customers are instructed to come back to the 25 billion app countdown page later to see who won the App Store gift card.
The countdown took just over two weeks from when Apple initiated it on February 17. At that time, the number of app downloads stood around 24.29 billion.
Apple held a similar countdown to the 10 billionth App Store download last year and reached the milestone on January 22, 2011.
The company has paid out over $4 billion to App Store developers and now carries roughly 600,000 applications in the digital storefront. The App Store launched in 2008, serving up 1.5 billion applications in its first year of operation.
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31 Comments
Dammit! Forget to buy free apps.
A good milestone, just in time for the iPad 3 launch.
Well I could never spend $10,000 in apps, still thinks it would've better if the prize was an Apple Gift Card.
Well I could never spend $10,000 in apps, still thinks it would've better if the prize was an Apple Gift Card.
You can use it throughout all of the iTunes Store, including iBookstore. That is a lot but I think I could spend that in a few years between music, movies, TV shows, iOS and Mac apps, and books.
That's a great image on Apple's homepage. Onwards and upwards!
I could spend the ten grand on just a few apps if they were on the App Store. \