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App Store stops by 950K apps on its way to 1 million

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Last time Apple checked in during its Q3 2013 earnings report it announced the App Store was home to 900,000 apps and over 375K designed specifically for iPad. Today, the App Store has now reached 950,000 apps and quickly approaches 1 million with Apple accepting 50K new apps in the last two months alone. The news comes from app discovery service Appsfire, which regularly tracks new and updated apps added to the App Store.

Apple often celebrates milestones for its App Store with some type of giveaway or contest for users. Earlier this year it made a number of premium apps available for free to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the App Store and also gave away a $10,000 App Store gift card to announce the 50 billionth app download. We wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple do something similar for the 1 millionth app on the App Store.

Apple has likely seen an increase in new app submissions in recent weeks, as a long list of developers update and release new apps to accompany last week’s launch of iOS 7 and the new iPhones. At the current rate, it will take Apple just another couple of months to hit the 1 million mark.

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Comments

  1. totencough - 11 years ago

    Timely news for Apple to talk about at their iPad event in October.

  2. Felonius NoSpamius - 11 years ago

    That number would be a lot lower if all the fake Chinese apps that are rebranded and sold for different amounts were taken off and that shady business practice was disallowed. Just looking at how many “developers” (loosely used) have the same app up under different names and prices with the exact same features makes the app store more of a flea market.

  3. Felonius, that practice is reduced. anyone reporting similarities can help to banish such apps.

  4. drtyrell969 - 11 years ago

    And just think, 250k of them are flashlights!

  5. auspicious3010 - 11 years ago

    After I updated my phone to ios 7 ! I could not able to download any app from App Store it display the message “”app could not be able to purchased at these time ,plz try again later”” these was the thing comeing when event I try to download !! It’s really suckszzzzz and make me anxious !!! Fucking!! I need quick solution !! Even I restated the my iPhone several time but these problem haven’t get riders

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