A few days ago Apple Computer issued a press release which got some media coverage. I don't usually pay much attention to such things, but two items caught my eye: - One billion downloads in nine months. This is a really, really big number. For perspective, this is equivalent to every man, woman, and child in the US downloading three iPhone applications. Or one out of every seven people in the entire world downloading an application. It's one download every time your heart beats for your whole life. It's one application download for every hundred stars in the galaxy. Or one application every fourteen years, for the entire history of the Universe. This is a lot of downloads. In a market space that didn't even exist a year ago. All of this has happened in only nine months (an average of more than 40 downloads a second, day and night, nonstop). Here's a "visual" of one billion, from the wikipedia page:
- The billionth download happened to be the application Bump, something I posted about last month (and, because of April Fool's, was considered suspect). Small world. Maybe Andy will get to shake Steve Jobs' hand? That would be almost as exciting as my brother hanging out with Lindsay Lohan.
