{"id":751507,"date":"2013-05-15T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T22:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=645923"},"modified":"2013-05-15T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T22:12:19","slug":"apples-app-store-hits-50-billion-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/751507","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s app store hits 50 billion downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple announced Wednesday that the App Store has hit 50 billion app downloads, a singificant milestone for the company only a few months after it announced 40 billion downloads back in January<\/a>.<\/p>

Apple’s App Store downloads and downloads from the Google Play store became roughly even last fall, as Erica Ogg wrote recently<\/a>,\u00a0and then in the first quarter of 2013, Google pulled ahead in sheer number of mobile app downloads worldwide<\/a>. However, Apple\u00a0got 74 cents for every dollar spent on apps during the that quarter, according to a report by Canalys published in April<\/a>, and the 50 billion downloads now puts Apple back with a slight lead.<\/p>

The company announced the number of downloads on the first day of Google’s I\/O conference<\/a>, as Google announced that its\u00a0Google Play store has seen 48 billion app downloads since launch in late 2008<\/a>. However, it’s good to remember that app downloads only tell part of the story — someone could download an app and never use it again.<\/p>

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