Apple announced Monday that there have been more than 40 billion app downloads from its iTunes App Store to date.
Surprisingly, nearly half of those downloads were during 2012 alone, which just goes to show the incredible growth that Apple’s store has gone through the past year — especially as new devices, such as the fourth generation iPad, the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini begin to take the market by storm. The popular game Temple Run, for example, has already been downloaded 75 million times since its release.
The iTunes App Store now offers more than 775,000 iPhone apps and 300,000 applications for the iPad.
[Source: TechnoBuffalo]