Apple App Store Reaches 1.5 Billion Downloads, Has 65,000 Apps - 1st Year Is a Success

The Apple App Store hit another milestone today, 1.5 Billion Downloads with over 65,000 Apps in its store. The announcement comes on the heels of the one year anniversary of the Apple App Store. The apps came from developers all across the globe, now over a 100,000, to create the most successful App Store in the industry.

Along with the announcement of the App Store success, Apple says they’ve also sold over 40 million iPhone and iPod Touches capable of downloading apps from the store. The continued acceleration of the Apple Store from 1 billion three months ago to 1.5 million now, have prompted others to launch their own app stores, including Blackberry, Android, and most recently Verizon and LG.

Announcement:

Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers

CUPERTINO, California—July 14, 2009—Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace with more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone™ Developer Program.

“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”

The revolutionary App Store has more than 65,000 apps available to consumers in 77 countries, allowing developers to reach tens of millions of iPhone and iPod® touch users around the world. The App Store works with both iPod touch and iPhone including the new iPhone 3GS, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. Apple has shipped over 40 million of these devices that run apps from the App Store.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

(Via Macrumors and Edible Apple)