9 Months, 1 Billion Downloads

2009 April 24
by Michael H. Berkens

Its official, in just nine months after launching the revolutionary Apple App Store, the 1 billion downloads mark has been met.

Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year old from Weston, CT, downloaded the one billionth app, Bump, a free contact swapping app created by Bump Technologies.

The teenager became the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest and will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro.

As we spoke about last week when facebook  hit 100 million users, the numbers the Internet can hit are just truly staggering.

If you have the right product or service, the numbers of customers you can reach are no longer measured in the thousands and tens of thousands, but in the hundreds of millions and now billions.

Certainly the reach of the Internet is unprecedented in world history.

History is being made.

3 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 April 24
    Francois permalink

    I have been changing my cell every 6 month these last 10 years…
    I stopped with the iPhone.
    Everyone that try it adopt it.
    I bet within 2 years maximum it has most of the phone market.

  2. 2009 April 24
    MHB permalink

    Agree with you.

    Once Apple gets a carrier in China to pick up the iphone (its one of the markets it doesn’t have right now) its a whole new ballgame

  3. 2009 April 24

    There is mobile phone, and then there is the iphone. It is in a class all by itself.

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