AppStore: successful but not in court

Apple's application store celebrates 15 billion downloads. Average user has about 75 applications on a device 


Selection of 425 000 applications. Apple's app store (Photo: Official Website) Three years after its founding, celebrates the Apple applications store the downloaded 15 billion. This enormous number were co-authored over 200 million people that users have an iPhone, iPod or iPad, chosen out of 425 000 applications are in the store. 100 000 These are specialized applications iPad tablet computer, which was launched less than a year and a half. On average, each user took about 75 applications to the device. A statement from Apple's press release boasted today that it paid $ 2.5 billion application developers (the company gives them 70% of the amount it pays the customer). "Only three years became a store successful applications software market worldwide," declared Phil Schiller, vice president of global product marketing at Apple.

Apple applications are still above the rest

Content-rich applications store is considered one of the most prominent advantages of mobile devices compared to Apple's innovative counterparts based on other operating systems. However, this advantage is reduced, and according to the application store site AndroidLib Google Android, Market, now approaching the supply of 420 thousand applications. Currently, the rate of downloads from the Apple store is about a billion a month, when Google is half a billion, but this trend is changing, thanks mainly to the fact that some 500,000 in Android New undergo Register (saying the device was a customer who lit it and put it to the network) with servers Google too day.

Reputation for, and in exchange

They also can tell Appstore: Android And if Apple's store is still considered successful, these measures does the company to protect it doing much less. Just today (Thursday) A federal judge refused to confirm the injunction that Apple filed against Amazon, claiming once more has the right to use the name "App Store" to describe its Android application store. Ruling, the judge said of the federal court in California, Phyllis Hamilton, that Apple did a lot invested in the promotion of its AppStore, but failed to establish that the name stands out. In addition, according to Hamilton, there is evidence that the name to mean the generic description of a place where you can find mobile software applications. 


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