Apple begins countdown to 25 billion downloads on iOS
Apple is inching closer to crossing 25 billion mark for downloads of iPhone and iPad apps. That’s up from 15 billion downloads in early July, implying that the iOS platform has on average seen about 1.5 billion downloads per month between then and now. That, of course, was backloaded into the holiday quarter after Apple launched the iPhone 4S.
To celebrate, Apple is awarding a $10,000 gift card for the app store, like it did more than a year ago when iOS crossed 10 billion downloads.
Apple’s chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said in the last earnings call that the company had paid out more than $4 billion to developers, including $700 million in the fourth quarter. Android platform is likely at half of iOS’ cumulative downloads after crossing 11 billion installs last month, according to Google’s most recent earnings call.
Here’s a look back how the ecosystem has grown since the store’s launch almost four years ago in mid-2008:
February 17th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
[...] has started counting down to 25 billion app downloads across the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Apple hit 15 billion downloads in early July. What this [...]
February 17th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
[...] Apple’s chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said in the last earnings call that the company had paid out more than $4 billion to developers, including $700 million in the fourth quarter. Android platform is likely at half of iOS’ cumulative downloads after crossing 11 billion installs last month, according to Google’s most recent earnings call.（Source：insidemobileapps） [...]
February 18th, 2012 at 12:51 am
[...] 浏览 →首页快报创业公司信息图评论推荐36氪开放日 boxi 发表于 下午 4:44/*0){$('#t_sina_btn').html('');$('#weibo_cmtbox').html('');}});/*]]>*/ 发表评论iOS累计应用下载量即将到达250亿次苹果正在慢慢逼近里程碑式的时刻，其iPhone和iPad应用的下载总量即将抵达250亿次。去年7月份的时候，这一数字是150亿次。也就是说，从那时候起至今，iOS平台平均每月的下载量大约有15亿次。为了庆祝这一时刻，苹果打算在应用商店上为第250亿次的下载者提供提供价值10000美元的礼品卡！一年前iOS下载量突破100亿的时候苹果也这么做过。在上一次的营收电话会议上，苹果的CFO透露说该公司已向开发者支付了40亿美元，其中第四季度支付了7亿美元。Andorid平台大约是iOS累计下载量的一半，上个月其安装量突破了110亿次。下图是整个iOS移动应用生态系统的成长曲线，从曲线的陡度看，其发展速度可谓迅猛：Via：AppleInsider [...]
February 21st, 2012 at 1:51 am
Estimated date countdown: http://apple-25-000-000-000-countdown.warting.se/
March 5th, 2012 at 7:38 am
[...] some 10 billion iOS apps have been downloaded. That’s roughly 1.5 billion downloads each month. Inside Mobile Apps points out that those big monthly download numbers were ‘back-loaded into the holiday quarter [...]
April 20th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
[...] As Inside Mobile Apps notes, in July of last year, Apple announced its App Store had surpassed 15 billion app downloads, which, according to Inside Mobile Apps, “[implies] that the iOS platform has on average seen about 1.5 billion downloads per month between then and now.” [...]