The App Store is unquestionably one of the main reasons for Apple’s continuing success. It certainly revolutionized the smartphone, and despite a serious challenge from Android it remains the top store for apps across the world.
At WWDC 2015, CEO Tim Cook revealed a couple of major numbers -- the biggest being that over 100 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store since it opened.
In a video celebrating the success of the App Store, Apple says "It took television 13 years to reach its first 50 million users. It took the App Store 17 months". Impressive.
There are now 850 apps downloaded every second, and the average person has 119 apps. How many they use, or have installed on their devices, is another matter of course.
With WWDC being a developer conference, Tim Cook had good news for anyone creating apps for iOS -- Apple has paid out over $30 billion to developers so far.