Categories: The App Store
App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads
Posted by: Peter Burrows on January 16
Late last year, Pelago Inc. founder Jeff Holden crunched the numbers and came to a shocking conclusion: that the 13 million owners of iPhone owners had already downloaded as much software as—are you sitting down—1.1 billion other cell-phone owners. "Why would I ever build for anything but the iPhone," he says.
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