Before the iPhone there was not much talk of “apps” (rather applications), but now it is a very common term for small applications which many of us install on our phones. Apple’s App store concept was so successful that other manufacturers quickly copied it for their own platforms, some more successful than others.
This past weekend the Apple App store just crossed the 25 billion mark for apps downloaded. Apple gave a $10,000 App store gift certificate to the person who downloaded that magic number, and we really wonder how you can spend $10,000 in the App store. Hopefully it is the entire Apple ecosystem.
Apple’s App store currently has over 550,000 apps, which is still more than the other platforms out there. It took Apple 2 and a half years to reach 10 billion downloads, but the last 10 billion downloads were completed in only 8 months. Right now it looks like there is no stopping the success of the App Store. Apple has also expanded the App Store to its Mac OS X operating system, and there will be significant changes to the upcoming version of OS X (Mountain Lion) which will make the desktop operating system move ever closer to the iOS way of working.
