Cloud Computing: Apple App Store at 25 Billion Downloads

Apple’s App Store hit 25 billion downloads Saturday. That’s up 10 billion since July and 15 billion since last January. The App Store opened in July of 2008 so it’s not yet four-years-old. It now stocks 500,000 iPhone apps and 140,000 iPad-specific apps. Google’s Android Market, which opened a few months later in October 2008, had wracked up 10 billion downloads this past December, when the Mac App Store, which opened in January of 2011, had 100 million downloads.

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