Apple announced today that its App Store has now topped 2 billion downloads. The store now has more than 85,000 applications available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers.
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
Is it any wonder that so many competitors have launched application stores of their own?