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figures: Today, Apple observed 800 uploaded every second on its online store applications, more than 2 billion per month

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We forget too often, but the success story of the iPhone is primarily the result of this brilliant idea: combine the smartphone to store rich and varied applications. Shop launched a year after the release of the first iPhone in 2007.

mobile applications already existed before Apple, including Windows Mobile, but Apple was able to make the ergonomic approach, simple and sexy. The company was also able to convince the developers themselves motivated by the growth curve of iPhone sales and cartons some applications.

If the concept was quickly picked up by the competition in the first place Google, Apple has long kept one step ahead. Today, the platform has passed the milestone of boggles 50 billion applications downloaded in five years (excluding upgrades). It took a year to double that figure ($ 25 billion in 2012).

A year from 25 to 50 billion apps downloaded

now, “the pace of download is more than 800 apps per second, more than two billion apps per month.’s 50 billionth app, Say the Same Thing by Inch Space, LLC, has been downloaded by Brandon Ashmore, Mentor (Ohio), which received a Gift Card App Store worth 10,000 dollars to celebrate this historic milestone, “said the apple.

If Google Play will soon to rise to that level, Apple continues to stand strong on the profitability of the store. This “created a thriving application ecosystem that has grossed more than nine billion dollars to developers. We are absolutely amazed to have reached this milestone in less than five years.” Joked Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Internet Software and Apple services.

For the record, Apple has recently revealed the list of the most popular applications since its application store there.

For the free iPhone applications Facebook is followed Pandora, Instagram, YouTube and . Skype
As for paid apps, these are the games that dominate the top rankings with: first Angry Birds followed Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope and Angry Birds Seasons .

The results are quite different for the iPad with Skype top free apps followed by The Weather Channel, Netflix, Angry Birds HD Free and Kindle reading light.

paying securities, Pages tops to Angry Birds HD, Angry Birds Seasons HD, Where’s My Water and Fruit Ninja HD.