Apple App Store-More than 40 billion downloads - 20 billion of 2012

Apple has just announced via a press release that the App Store has cracked the 40 billion download mark and last year almost half of them were made. In December 2012, Apple set a new record, reaching over two billion downloads during the Christmas season.

In total, the Apple App Store over 500 million active accounts, and the developer community could achieve in the time over seven billion U.S. dollars. In the twenty-three different categories currently over 775,000 apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are available, including more than 300,000 native iPad apps. In addition, Apple has also given one or the other information about popular apps from last year known. So the game Temple Run in 2012 was downloaded more than 75 million times, but freemium titles are becoming enlarged popularity and the game DragonVale, and Clash of clans could jointly take over $ 100 million. The development of the App Store is so remains positive and the economic revenues fall ever higher aus.In 2012 was the game Temple Run from the developer couple of Imangi Studios downloaded over 75 million times, for Backflip Studios and supercell, two aspiring game developer studios have the leading freemium title DragonVale and Clash of clans together dropped to $ 100 million, and new emerging services like Uber, Flipboard, AirBnB HotelTonight or inspire millions of iOS users. Companies such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Autodesk, Marvel and the Major League Baseball have expanded its range of iOS continuously while developers like JJ Abrams' Bad Robot Interactive and Bottle Rocket Apps have further explored the limits of what is possible in the development among all iOS is.