Apple announces that more than 2 billion apps has been downloaded from its App Store and that its catalog now features some 85,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple’s success in the mobile device arena has led other companies, such as Microsoft, Palm and Research In Motion, to launch their own mobile applications stores to take advantage of a growing market for portable programs.
– Apple
announced on Sept. 28 that its App Store now features 85,000 apps for its
iPhone and iPod Touch devices, and that more than 2 billion apps have been
downloaded since the services launch in July 2008.
In a press release, Apple CEO Steve Jobs
said that users had downloaded quot;more than …