The billionth iPhone app was downloaded from Apple’s App Store shortly after 5 p.m. ET on Thursday. All of those App Store downloads took place in only 9 months, so that’s an average of about 5.5 million iPhone app downloads per day. It’s clear that the iPhone and its many applications are a key part of our culture and the way people communicate with each other these days. Last summer, Apple sold one million 3G iPhones worldwide across 21 countries in the first 3 days of sales. During that same time, iPhone users made 10 million app downloads from the then newly launched iTunes App Store.

Source: CNN