When will the App Store hit ten billion downloads?
So it’s no secret that the App Store is about to reach ten billion downloads.
But when?
Pádraig got in touch with me on Friday evening to let me know he’d found a way to process the data behind Apple’s app counter to determine when we might reasonably expect the milestone to be reached and see if I was interested in helping him put together a mini-site to publish the countdown.
On Sunday I had some time to play around with a simple design and on Monday TenBillionApps.com went live.
According to the latest calculations the ten billionth app will be downloaded on Saturday 22 January just after 1pm PST.
We’ve also used the mini-site as an opportunity to push apps by some independent developers. My own app, My Artists, is there but I’ve written enough about that before. Movie Challenge by Redwind Software is the ultimate movie trivia game and Redwind have just put it on sale for $0.99 until this countdown hits zero. Slideshow Builder by BitWink uses face detection to ensure that faces in your photos stay on screen during slideshow animations and has a handy Jump Face Animation mode to ensure everyone gets their moment in the limelight.
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