Apple passes the 2 billion download mark with App Store

Surprise, surprise -- the App Store's reached yet another wild milestone, hitting a whopping two billion downloads since its inception a little over a year ago. It took a little under three months to get from one billion to 1.5 billion downloads and a hair over two months to get from 1.5 to two, so the pace is accelerating just a bit -- a function both of total iPhones / iPod touches in circulation and of the ever-increasing size of the App Store's catalog, which now stands at over 85,000. The most interesting stat here might be the fact that there are actually more than 125,000 developers enrolled in Apple's iPhone dev program, meaning there are at least 40,000 devs out there who need to feel the crack of the whip (or, like some of us, just want access to beta firmware).

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 12:05AM]

Yeah, or Apple is rejecting the other 40,000 developers' apps.

[finalfantasyeternal Posted Sep 29th 2009 12:31AM]

Or 60,000+ of the apps are redundant, crappy, hardly any functional use, or copies of each other.

[Emitor Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:42AM]

Yay! And I've only downloaded none! Go Cydia! Yay!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 5:43AM]

Who can deny that iPhone with 85K apps has become the De Facto platform
for third party developers?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 12:44PM]

ummmm ... perhaps the people who put 190k+ apps on Handango ???
Quality over quantity ! wih very few exceptions all the appstore has is games, gadgets and other useless junk. The screenshot in the arcticle speaks for itself.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 1:12PM]

WTF do you guys want these apps to do? Making your fucking coffee and tuck you in at night? While that would be sick(especially if it adds cream and sugar), these apps are still for a phone and ipods... I'm not an apple fanboy and I agree that having hundreds of fart apps that are useless is stupid, but thats not apple making these apps, third party companies do, and why do they?? Because YOU buy them. (by you I mean the consumer)