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Apple's App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion
CUPERTINO,
California—July 7, in the year of our Lord 2011—Apple®
today announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded
from its revolutionary App Store™ by the more than 200 million
iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users worldwide. The App Store
offers more than 425,000 apps and developers have created an
incredible array of over 100,000 native iPad apps.
“In just three years, the revolutionary App Store has grown to
become the most exciting and successful software marketplace the
world has ever seen,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice
president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Thank you to all of
our amazing developers who have filled it with over 425,000 of
the coolest apps and to our over 200 million iOS users for
surpassing 15 billion downloads.”
“We sparked musical magic when iPhone users experienced Ocarina
three years ago,” said Dr. Ge Wang, a Smule co-founder and
assistant professor at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research
in Music and Acoustics. “And now with iPad, we’ve created the
Magic Piano and Magic Fiddle apps. Who could’ve dreamt an iPad
would make its way into the San Francisco Symphony?”
“iPad provides us with an unparalleled mobile device for
creating gorgeous, immersive games,” said Mark Rein, vice
president and co-founder of Epic Games. “Infinity Blade has been
a runaway hit with customers around the world and we couldn’t be
more excited about our success on iOS devices.”
“We’re bringing Martha Stewart, Angelina Ballerina, Sesame
Street and many more of the world’s most popular books and
magazines to iPad,” said Nicholas Callaway, CEO of Callaway
Digital Arts. “We knew the iPad was going to be a revolutionary
storytelling device, but never could have anticipated it would
become so popular, so quickly.”
More than 15 billion apps have been downloaded from the
revolutionary App Store and more than 425,000 apps are
available, including more than 100,000 native iPad apps, to
consumers in 90 countries. Users of the more than 200 million
iOS devices around the world can choose from an incredible range
of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news,
education, sports, health, reference and travel. Apple has paid
developers over $2.5 billion to date.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world,
along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple
leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes
online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its
revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced
iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and
computing devices.