Jake Widman
Saturday, 25 April 2009 02:24
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Mobility
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Apple announced that customers have downloaded one billion applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch from its App Store. The company also removed a controversial app that enabled users to "kill" a virtual baby by shaking it.
The App Store, now nine months old, provides an outlet for independent software developers to sell their products to iPhone and iPod Touch owners.
According to Apple, the Store has more than 35,000 applications available, ranging from games to office application suites to
bullet trajectory calculators .
“The revolutionary App Store has been a phenomenal hit with iPhone and iPod touch users around the world, and we’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve the astonishing milestone of one billion apps downloaded,” said Apple senior VP Philip Schiller in the announcement.
The billionth app was Bump from
Bump Technologies , a social networking tool that enables iPhone users to exchange contact info just by touching their phones together.
The purchase was made by a 13-year-old boy from Connecticut, whose lucky timing won him a US$10,000 iTunes gift card, a new iPod Touch, a MacBook Pro, and a Time Capsule external hard disk.
At the same time Apple was reaching that milestone, however, the company was fending off criticism for a tasteless game that hit the store on Monday.
For more on the baby-shaking controversy, see Page 2
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