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

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,...