Paper glider: the ten billionth app downloaded from Apple's App StoreA small UK app developer and a woman from Orpington were today's winners as Apple announced 10 billionth app from its iTunes App Store.
Gail Davis of Orpington in Kent downloaded app, paper glider from Cirencester-based iPhone app developer Neon play. As the winner of Apple's App Store countdown to 10 billion Apps, Davis will receive a $ 10,000 iTunes gift card.
"We have eagerly discussed 10 billion app countdown in our games studio, so when I got a call from Apple Cupertino says, they had some good news, I trøde that they might tell us, the featuring one of our apps on the App Store," said Oli Christie, CEO of Neon play.
"So when they said that Neon play paper gliders was the 10 billionth app, I was completely so. It is a big piece of news for the whole team playing Neon. Paper glider is currently number one app in the UK, so this is a double piece of great news for our studio.
Apple opened its App Store in July 2008, have earlier suggested for developers, that it would not be necessary, because they could develop applications to run on the World Wide web instead-but then agreed.
Have an "app store" now seen as crucial for any platform, smartphone success: Nokia, Google Android phones, BlackBerry maker RIM, Microsoft's Windows phone 7 and other rivals, have all competing stores compete to attract developers and buyers are using their phones. Androids are closest to it in the apps, even if a greater number of its apps is advertising-supported rather than paid for-although overall the majority of apps offered free of charge.
Apple said earlier this week, to more than 160 m iOS devices that can download and run apps have been sold, although the number of active units is between 120 m and 130 m, when they were introduced, the first is the iPhone in June 2007.
Said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product Marketing "with more than 10 billion apps downloaded in just two and a half years – an amazing seven billion apps alone — the App Store has surpassed our wildest dreams, last year". "The App Store has revolutionized how software is created, distributed, discovered and sold. While the other attempt to copy the App Store, it will continue to offer developers and customers the most innovative experience on the planet. "
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