14 DAY TRIAL // In its press release announcing the cheaper iPad 4 starting at $399 / €379, Apple today confirmed that customers in 155 countries have downloaded a staggering 65 billion applications from the iTunes App Store on their iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch players.
The press release (embedded below for your viewing pleasure), says that “iPad customers have access to the revolutionary App Store, which offers more than one million apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 155 countries around the world, and more than 500,000 apps are designed specifically for iPad.”
Almost a year ago there were only (if you can even say that in relation to these numbers) 300K apps specialized for iPad. Apple then confirms the breakthrough number of sheer downloads from the digital distribution venue at 65 billion.
“More than 65 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, which offers customers an incredible range of apps in 24 categories, including newspapers and magazines in Newsstand, games and entertainment, kids, education, business, news, sports, health and fitness and travel,” Apple confirms.
The Cupertino behemoth promotes its own iLife and iWork apps (iPhoto, iMovie, Garage Band, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) as “essential to the Apple experience” for creativity and productivity.
These are now free, “so more iPad users have access to these great apps that are optimized to support 64-bit technology and include hundreds of new features,” according to the company.