Apple's App Store Hits 25 Billion Downloads

Someone is about to win $10,000.

Just over two weeks after announcing a countdown to 25 billion app downloads, Apple has revealed that the milestone has been reached.

The company announced the countdown on February 17, saying that the person who downloaded the 25 billionth app would win a $10,000 gift card credit.

The credit can be used in the iTunes Store, the App Store and the iBooks Store, meaning whoever wins could purchase around 10,000 new songs for their library, or, according to The Huffington Post, 10 copies of the $999.99 BarMax CA app. BarMax is essentially an entire bar exam prep course in one huge (over 1 gigabyte) application.

As of this writing the winner had not been announced, but according to Apple's website, a winner will be posted there later.

On February 18, Apple's countdown clock had recorded 24,338,612,000 app downloads, which means that it took just over two weeks for customers to download over 660 million applications, which as The Next Web reports, works out to about 48.6 million per day.

In comparison, about 11 billion apps have been downloaded from Google's Android Market, and about 2 billion from BlackBerry's App World store.

The contest may be over, but there are still apps to be downloaded. Check out 10 essential iPad apps in our slideshow below.

Comments

[Sunny Makeitrain Singh]

04:05 PM on 04/06/2012

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swag-ball/id513765072?ls=1&mt=8

Check it out! I made my app to the App Store!

[Peter B Steele]

11:33 AM on 03/05/2012

See the funny thing is people heard about this and rushed to download apps, now according to the story 600+ million apps had to be downloaded in order to reach this goal. Provided that most of these apps were piad for at $1 a piece then apple has just scammed more people into wasting there money at the hopes of getting nothing in return. Im sorry but 10k to there own store? Thats sad. They just get the money right back albeit a little shaved off for the developer.

[williams74ra]

10:50 AM on 03/05/2012

A $10,000 publicity gimmick does not excuse the abuse of the workers who make their products.

[rkeeeballs]

09:07 AM on 03/05/2012

That must be the ten grand they used for toilet paper in the executive suite !

[thinlizzy068]

06:48 AM on 03/05/2012

it's not even 10,000 cash! It's a 10,000 gift card! now that is cheesy!

[tribeffl3]

07:51 AM on 03/05/2012

Agree. I was going to say cheesy also, but I saw you got me covered on this one. A 1/2 trillion dollar company with $90,000,000,000 in cash reserves can't just give the lucky person cash. Ridiculus.

[Devin Garner]

06:34 AM on 03/05/2012

And so you're telling me if I win I will have to pay taxes on $10000 worth of nothing? Right.

[Dean Diehl]

04:30 AM on 03/05/2012

Apple needs to refund IPad 1 owners that upgraded to ios5. It turned my ipad into a worthless piece of junk that crashes every 10 minutes. apple won't let me go back to ios4.3 I will go buy a DROID now

[Pleasedontdelete]

04:08 AM on 03/05/2012

To all of the Apple haters: You are 100% right!

Now... Immediately get rid of ALL of your electronics!
Play Station, xBox, PC (All brands), Flat panel TV, DVD/Blu-ray player, cell phone, digital camera (still and video), ALL of it!

Why?
They are ALL MADE BY THE SAME COMPANY THAT MAKES APPLE PRODUCTS!

[Guvner Purry]

02:53 AM on 03/05/2012

Are their slaves eligible to win the 10k?

[mjredder]

12:44 AM on 03/05/2012

Buy apps, WIN $10,000!!!*

*- Pay no attention to that slave labor behind the curtain.

[doedill7]

11:54 PM on 03/04/2012

why does Apple get to say how the 10G is spent? that's hokey, I rather spend on things needed in my life, not on more Apple junk! yes?

[tunewright]

10:45 PM on 03/04/2012

A Whole $10K???????? Gosh where will Apple Inc. ever come up with that kind of money? Might need to open some more sweatshops in the Orient.

[alexchip192]

10:41 PM on 03/04/2012

It was Me! Where's my money!

[nannymel]

10:28 PM on 03/04/2012

Wow, there's a bunch of haters on here. Apple did the promotion for fun. What do you guys want? Should apple give away a million dollar card? That would be silly, I can't even imagine spending 10gs. I mean, it would take me years i'm sure to spend that much on apps or even books. They should allow you to buy stuff from apple as well. I would defiantly buy a new computer. Anyway, congrats to whoever won!

[Guvner Purry]

02:54 AM on 03/05/2012

I hope one of their slaves won.

[whorunwerun]

09:59 PM on 03/04/2012

NOT only is it only $10,000 to the I store so $10,000 Nothing but downloads that cost nothing to apple. Be American smash your I, Mac or Apple devices today and make the United States stronger.

[pwkrp]

12:03 AM on 03/05/2012

And were is your computer made?

[Guvner Purry]

02:54 AM on 03/05/2012

where