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Apple launches App Store in 32 new countries

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Apple flipped the switch on the App Store in 32 new countries on Thursday, making good on a promise made by CEO Tim Cook during WWDC 2012 that was slightly overshadowed by the unveiling of the MacBook Pro with Retina display and a host of other product launches.

The App Store further extends it reach and is now available in a total of 155 countries with new users expected to add to the over 400 million active accounts with credit cards now on iTunes.

Full list of countries that gained App Store access on Thursday:

Albania, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Fiji, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Zimbabwe.

Cook announced during the Worldwide Developers Conference earlier in June that iOS App Store had reached the 30 billion download mark with over $5 billion paid to developers of the iDevice apps. With over 650,000 apps available, 225,000 of which are designed for iPad, customers in the 32 new countries will have a plethora of offerings to choose from.



10 Comments

solipsismx 19562 comments · 13 Years

So what countries are left? PS: Perhaps it's my US education but I doubt I could place a quarter of these in the right place on a map and have only been to two of them.

scotty321 312 comments · 20 Years

Weird. Do people even have (or want) iOS devices in those countries? Clearly not too many people do, or else Apple wouldn't have waited 4 years to bring the App Store to those places. Weird that they would even do it now.

markbyrn 662 comments · 14 Years

About 40 countries left to be added, and than it will be total world domination! [URL=http://forums.appleinsider.com/image/id/168971/width/600/height/399][IMG]http://forums.appleinsider.com/image/id/168971/width/600/height/399[/IMG][/URL]

otterfish 45 comments · 13 Years

It's no wonder that the BlackBerry still rules in Indonesia. See sidebar here for list of supported countries.

tonton 13668 comments · 23 Years

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Originally Posted by otterfish 

It's no wonder that the BlackBerry still rules in Indonesia. See sidebar here for list of supported countries.

That's the iTunes Music Store. Not the App Store. This story is about the App Store.

 

The App Store exists in dozens more countries than the iTunes Music Store does, Indonesia being one of them.

 

But it's true that BB rules in Indonesia. It will be the last holdout, apparently. Funny.