Apple App Store Tops 75 Billion Downloads

Apple users have now downloaded more than 75 billion apps to date, the company announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday

That's up from 50 billion app downloads almost exactly a year ago. To put that another way, the total number of Apple app downloads increased by 50% in just one year

CEO Tim Cook also revealed that there are now 1.2 million apps in the App Store, up from one million in early December

While that represents strong growth, it also poses a challenge for app discovery. To address that issue, Cook said Apple plans to improve related searches for apps as well as adding an Editor's Choice tag to certain apps and video previews of apps. Read more...