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