Last week the Apple App Store celebrated it’s 5th anniversary! The App store launched in 62 countries with 500 available apps and had 10 million downloads in the first weekend. Since then, the growth just keeps speeding up. Here’s a snapshot of where the App Store was in 2012 (from Apple’s milestone timeline):
In just over a year, the number of app downloads doubled (no small feat when we’re talking billions) and the money earned by developers went from $4 billion to double digit billions.
That’s a lot of app testing!