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    Happy 10th Birthday to the App Store!

    July 17, 2018

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    Jenny Coombs

     

    It's hard to believe, but we just passed the 10-year anniversary of the Apple iPhone App Store, which in turn launched a massive business revolution for millions of young people (and nerdy adults).

     

    June 29, 2007, the day the first-generation iPhone was released, is often considered the birthday of the modern smartphone. And while that may be true in terms of its (at the time) revolutionary touchscreen user interface, another, less noted event probably played an even bigger role in shaping today’s smartphone experience. 

    Ten years ago, on July 10, 2008, Apple introduced the App Store, opening up its famously walled garden and paving the way for today’s app economy. “We’re excited about creating a vibrant third-party developer community with potentially thousands of native applications for iPhone and iPod touch,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs had said a few months earlier at the unveiling of the iPhone software development kit, illustrating that even Jobs, surely among the keenest of optimists, couldn’t imagine apps becoming as big as they eventually did. 

    Instead of “thousands of applications” the App Store now has more than two billion apps and many app developers/publishers have made a fortune building apps for Apple’s mobile ecosystem. As our chart illustrates, iOS developers have earned more than $100 billion since the App Store’s inception in 2008, making July 10, 2008 the starting point of what has essentially been the gold rush of the early 21st century.

     

    Can growth continue at this rate? It remains to be seen, but given how long and straight this trend has been, it wouldn't be too shocking. 

     

    For more information, visit Statista by CLICKING HERE.

     

     

     

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