Nine months after opening to the public, the popular Apple App Store has sold more than one billion applications designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch MP3 player.
CDFreaks wrote earlier in the month that the App Store was quickly approaching the milestone, with 8.6 million apps being downloaded each day.
Connor Mulcahey, 13, downloaded the billionth app, Bump Technologies’ Bump, an app designed so iPhone users can share contact information easily. Mulcahey will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro, according to Apple.
Vivendi’s Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D has been the top paid app — available for $5.99 — with Facebook, Google Earth, and Pandora serving as the top three free apps.
This historic milestone for Apple has been blackened as the company recently issued an apology and pulled the "Baby Shaker" app that caused a public uproar. The 99-cent app, available for less than one week, had users shake a baby to get it to stop crying.
Applications for mobile phones were routinely available over the Internet fo years before the App Store, but Apple’s popular phone helped alter the mobile landscape. Research in Motion (RIM), Nokia, Google, and other companies either have already announced their own app stores, or are expected to announce their own stores shortly.
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