Happy Birthday, App Store!
This month marks the first birthday of Apples App Store with the launch of a page on iTunes highlighting a selection of the apps that have helped make it so successful.
Given how much as all love our iPhone Apps at MadeByPi, we thought it only fitting to share our top five app-related facts.
1) The App Store first opened its doors on the morning of July 10th 2008.
2) The most expensive app sold via the App Store was the 'I Am Rich' app released in August 2008, this was billed as ‘a work of art with no hidden function at all', it's only purpose being to show other people that they were able to afford it. It was priced at a staggeringly stupid price of $999.99 (£599.99). The app was removed from the App Store the day following its release, on August 6, 2008. However, six people had allegedly already bought it before it was pulled (muppets)!
3) The one billionth app downloaded was ‘Bump', created by Bump Technologies. It was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year-old from Weston Conneticut, who was hailed the grand prize winner of Apple's one billion app countdown contest
4) US blog 'Busted Loop' revealed after some research that in order to buy all 55,732 apps that were available as of 7th July 2009 you would need to fork out $144,326.06 (£89,818.381) - that's an average of about £1.60 per app to you and me.
5) In May 2009 Pinch Media analysed 30 million iPhone app downloads and discovered that only 5 per cent of users will open either a free or paid app 30 days after the initial download.
