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Apple's App Store Nears One Billion Served
Bits — ... hits a billion downloads. Just four months ago, in January, the company announced it had surpassed 500,000 downloads. Currently, the counter has about 70 million or so downloads to go until it hits the one-billion milestone, but the popularity of mobile applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch has only been increasing since the company began allowing third-party developers to sell programs in the online market in July. By comparison, it took more than two years for Apple to announce the sale of its billionth song through iTunes . In addition to the app ticker, Apple ...

Apple 'Sells' 1 Billion iPhone Apps Three Times Faster Than It Sold 1 Billion iTunes Songs
Silicon Alley Insider — Apple (AAPL) is counting down to 1 billion apps downloaded from the iPhone/iPod touch app store. On Friday afternoon, it passed 930 million downloads, about nine months after the App Store launched. That's impressive. With about 30-35 million iPhone and iPod touch devices in the market, that suggests the average person has downloaded about 30 apps. That's a lot! Most mobile users download zero apps on their phones. It took Apple more than two years to sell 1 billion songs on iTunes, so it's going to hit 1 billion apps about three times faster. ...