3 Billion Apps Downloaded

This Tuesday Apple announced that they have hit a major App Store landmark with download of the over 3 billion downloads.

This may not seem a major break through but if you think that this has only happened in the last 18 months that is some going from iPhone users round the world. (That’s about 142 per person given that Apple have sold about 21 million iPhones since July 2007. Based on Apple selling 6.5 million units per quarter at the end of 2009) .

In an interview with the main man himself; Steve Jobs said:

This is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod Touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.

Other companies have also tried to launch App Store’s such as RIM (Blackberry), Palm and Android but none of them have anywhere near as many apps on offer as the Apple App Store. Palm have only 1000 Apps (1% of Apple App Store) and Android have between 15,000 and 20,000 Apps. (20% of Apple App Store) Apple are boasting a hefty 100,000 Apps available for us to choose from.