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Apple, a company well-known for their \u2018iGadgets,\u2019 has reached a new milestone today. Last year, the App Store was used for over 20 billion app downloads, which means 40 billion lifetime downloads for the application overall.<\/p>\nApple, a company well-known for their \u2018iGadgets,\u2019 has reached a new milestone today. Last year, the App Store was used for over 20 billion app downloads, which means 40 billion lifetime downloads for the application overall.<\/p>\n
The App Store has some 500 million active accounts which downloaded some 2 billion applications in December of 2012 alone. That makes December the best month the company has ever seen for downloads of its 775,000 approved apps for iOS devices.<\/p>\n
This growth means tons of new revenue for the developers of the App Store. Apple claims that over $7 billion has been given to the developers of both the App Store and iOS. This kind of revenue is astounding \u2013 however, so is the growth.<\/p>\n
In June of 2012, less than a year before the December announcement, Apple had already hit 30 million downloads and some 400 million active App Store accounts. Between June and October, the App Store gained another 5 billion downloads to raise the total to 35 million. According to those figures, the acceleration of the App Store\u2019s growth is absolutely staggering.<\/p>\n
And it doesn\u2019t stop here. The acceleration is expected to continue over the next year according to several research companies including the well-known Flurry Analytics. Two billion applications are expected to be downloaded to Android and iOS-based devices each and every week in 2013.<\/p>\n