Apple App Store reaches 1 Million Apps | But is it really 1 million?

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As of Today, Monday November 19th, 2012.

 

Apple has approved more than 1 MILLION Apps in the App Store.

This is according to App Store discovery company Appsfire, and was announced this morning via twitter.

Congrats!!

 

Co-founder of Appsfire Ouriel Ohayon told The Next Web that,

 

“Of the one million app submissions since 2008, 493,289 were paid and 158,848 were games. Of the 736,247 apps that are currently live 336,270 are paid (around 45 percent), while 120,065 are games (around 16 percent).

The app count includes iOS apps only and doesn’t account for Mac App Store apps.” 

 

While it’s unlikely Apple will make a press release disclosing the achievement, it’s still an accomplishment worth recognizing.  The Store itself is accessed by a large percentage of Apple’s 400 million iTunes account holders, accounting for 35 billion downloads in it four year life.

 

Apple has historically seen developers remove their titles from the App Store and has been forced to uphold copyright notices (also removing infringing apps and generally policing its storefront).  Because of this, you can expect the ‘live number of apps’ to be less than the number of total submissions it has approved (today marking, 1 million).

Compared to the Google Play store (which was said to have reached 700,000 apps last month and has seen over 25 Billion downloads), Apple and Google are still on-top of eachother for the app counts.  The difference really revolves around the fact that Apple more heavily polices, and controls their store whereas the Google Play store is more ‘wild’ where you can find all types of apps that may not even be of useable quality.

 

and..

 

That about wraps it up.

 

-Kevin

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