App Store Hits 100K in 481 Days

Nov 4th, 2009 - CNNMoney

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481 days. That's how long it took the App Store (AAPL) to go from opening its virtual doors with 500 applications on July 11, 2008 to a catalog of more than 100,000 applications downloaded more than 2 billion times.

Not surprisingly, the folks at Apple are pleased.

The amazing thing is that it's likely not even Apple knew just how successful the App Store and SDK would be or how it would spawn so many competitors (GigaOM Pro, subscription required).

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