App Store hits 500 million downloads: thanks, iFart

Wowsers, that little App Store side project Apple has going on sure doesn't seem to be settling down. After launching in July of '08 and hitting 100 million downloads in September, the App Store has just crossed the 500 million download mark -- a mere six months after opening. Compare that to the iTunes Music Store, which took two whole years to cross the 500 million mark, though to be fair we have little idea of the paid to free ratio of app downloads. There are over 15,000 apps in the App Store currently, and sure, 14,500 of them are crap, with the rest being tip calculators, but we gotta hand it to Apple for pretty much unprecedented success in the mobile download space -- now let us download SNES emulators!

[Thanks, Richard]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2009 11:44AM]

Oh hecks yes, a legitimate SNES emulator would be so cool. That I'd pay good money for. I know, I know you can jailbreak and get it (and I had it), but it was buggy.

[ByronGman Posted Jan 16th 2009 12:59PM]

Haha, you gotta love you how iFart is always one of the top five apps.


Imagine what the most popular app list would look like if they let porn in, lol.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2009 2:02PM]

If iBoobs was available, it would beat iFart by a breaststroke.

[Quikboy Posted Jan 17th 2009 12:57AM]

Wonderful. Apple has reached the mark that Microsoft must have reached probably a year ago, considering the thousands of applications available for Windows Mobile, and the quantity of WinMo smartphones out there.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 17th 2009 3:24PM]

And the quality of the WinMob apps over the years.