Apple’s Worldwide Developers
Conference kicked off today, and as usual, the keynote began with a bunch of
Apple stats.
Before
showing a video of the company’s latest retail store opening in Berlin, CEO Tim
Cook revealed that a million people went to Apple’s retail stores per day last
year. They now have 47 stores around the world in 14 countries. This particular
store was opened in a hundred-year-old building.
On the
digital side of things, Cook announced that people have downloaded 50 billion
apps from the App Store. There are currently 900,000 apps in the store, and 93%
of them, he said, are downloaded every month.
Here
are Some interesting App Store Numbers and Data that reveals ” How Apple
managed to change the Mobile Content Ecosystem
- There are now 900,000 apps in the app store, with 375,000 of those
optimized for the iPad.
- Out of those 900,000 apps, 93% are downloaded every month. That’s
up from 700,000 apps announced at the September 2012 iPhone 5 event
- Apple Crossed the 50 billion apps downloaded from the store, in May
2013
- So far Apple has paid out $10 billion to developers, with $5
billion paid out in the last year alone.
- Apple claims that this makes up 74 percent of total app
download revenue across all mobile