Visit Apple’s home page and you’ll now see a huge banner announcing an incredible milestone. It’s a mind-boggling number, especially when you consider the world’s population is now at 7 billion.
Clearly, people love their apps. You have to wonder at what point app usage will overtake Web browsing, considering smartphone usage is at an all-time high.
According to Pew Internet, nearly half of American adults now own a smartphone. That’s an 11 percent increase in the number who owned one last May. The study also found that of the people who own a mobile phone, more are smartphone users than non-smartphone users.
According to AppleInsider, Apple has paid developers more than $4 billion and offers about 600,000 apps in its store. According to recent figures extrapolated by Aysmco, Apple has sold an estimated 410 million mobile devices as of the end of 2011. So if you take 25 billion downloads and divide it by 410 million you get about 61 apps per device.
The 25 billion download mark ends a promotion Apple had been touting in which the person to hit the milestone by downloading an app would win a $10,000 App Store gift card. No word yet on who the winner is.
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