{"id":16718,"date":"2011-01-24T02:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T18:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=16718"},"modified":"2011-01-24T02:01:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T18:01:57","slug":"apple-app-store-hits-10-billion-downloads-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/apple-app-store-hits-10-billion-downloads-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has made it to the headline again. Their App Store has just hit 10 Billion (10,000,000,000) downloads in just a short 2.5 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16719\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/apple-app-store-hits-10-billion-downloads-amazing\/app-store-10b\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg?fit=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"app-store-10b\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg?fit=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16719 aligncenter\" title=\"app-store-10b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg?resize=542%2C305\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/app-store-10b.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->And the 10th billion downloader is Gail Davis. He will receive a USD10,000 iTunes Card.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the press release that I copied from Engadget.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apple&#8217;s App Store Downloads Top 10 Billion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUPERTINO, California-January 22, 2011-Apple\u00ae today announced that more  than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App  Store? by the more than 160 million iPhone\u00ae, iPod touch\u00ae and iPad\u2122 users  worldwide. The 10 billionth app downloaded, Paper Glider, was purchased  by Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK. As the winner of the App Store  Countdown to 10 Billion Apps, Gail Davis will receive a $10,000 iTunes\u00ae  Gift Card.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;With more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two and a half  years-a staggering seven billion apps in the last year alone-the App  Store has surpassed our wildest dreams,&#8221; said Philip Schiller, Apple&#8217;s  senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. &#8220;The App Store has  revolutionized how software is created, distributed, discovered and  sold. While others try to copy the App Store, it continues to offer  developers and customers the most innovative experience on the planet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The revolutionary App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to iPhone,  iPod touch and iPad users in 90 countries around the world, with more  than 60,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose  from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games,  business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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 is  reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App  Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining  the future of mobile media and computing devices.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/01\/22\/apples-app-store-hits-10-billion-downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has made it to the headline again. 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