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It was a little under three months ago that Apple's App Store recorded its one-billionth download, a milestone that took just nine months to achieve. If you thought that was impressive, Apple today announced its App Store downloads now top 1.5 billion. Not bad for a one-year-old service.
"The App Store is like nothing in the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up."
And at the current pace, Jobs is probably right. The App Store shows no signs of slowing down, recording more than 500 million downloads in under three months for its more than 65,000 apps available to consumers in 77 countries. There have been more than 40 million iPod touch and iPhone devices shipped so far, along with 100,000 developers churning out applications.
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