App Store Has Over 100 000 Apps

Apple today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the App Store, the largest application store in the world.

iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries can choose from a huge range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel, and have downloaded well over two billion apps.

“The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating.”

Travis Boatman, vice president of Worldwide Studios, EA Mobile commented: “The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve. With a global reach of over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users, the App Store has allowed us to develop high quality EA games that have been a huge success with customers.”