Mon, May 20, 2013: Brandon Ashmore from Ohio who was downloaded the 50 billionth app from Apple’s App Store, received US$10,000 App Store Gift Card from Apple to commemorate the historic 50 billionth download.
Currently, the App Store offers more than 850,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 350,000 native iPad apps available. App Store customers can choose from an incredible range of apps in 23 categories, including newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness and travel. According to Apple, its customers are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store.