App Store Stats: 400 Million Accounts, 650,000 Apps

In Steve Jobs fashion, Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, Calif., with a handful of key stats about its app ecosystem, which Cook called "an economy in itself."

There are now more than 400 million accounts with registered credit cards in the App Store, making it the store with the most credit cards on file anywhere in the world, he said.

There are approximately 650,000 apps in the App Store, 225,000 of which are for iPad. Thirty billion apps have been downloaded in total. Apple has paid developers $5 billion in checks (meaning Apple has pocked about $2.5 billion with its 30% cut).

And these numbers are bound to grow, Cook indic… Continue reading...

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