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Apple's App Store breaks the 25 billion downloads mark

By | March 3, 2012, 1:02am PST

Summary: A $10,000 gift card goes to the lucky app downloader!

If you’ve ever downloaded an app from Apple’s App Store, then Apple sends you a big thank you.

At some point during the past few hours the 25 billionth app was downloaded from the Apple App Store. If you were the lucky one that downloaded the 25 billionth app then Apple has a special thank you for you in the form of a $10,000 gift card.

App Store downloads crossed 1 billion back in April of 2009, and then smashed through the 10 billion barrier in January of 2011.

Google’s Android Market passed the 10 billion app download mark back in December of 2011.

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Adrian also runs a popular blog under the name The PC Doctor, where he covers a range of computer-related topics -- from security to repairing and upgrading.

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DocuMentor (Doc) 6th Mar
It figures, Adrian. Doc was probably number 24 billion, nine hundred ninety nine million, nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine. I never win anything!
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Cool for the person who gets the gift card....
James Quinn Updated - 3rd Mar
But the real celebration has to be for the developers. 25 billion and growing represents huge potential for anyone with an App in iTunes:)

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WINNER LOL
partman1969@... 5th Mar
I think the winners gonna need a lot of iPods, iPads and iPhones to ever redeem 10,000 dollars worth of iApps. Good for the winner and winner's family. Have fun.
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DocuMentor (Doc) 6th Mar
It figures, Adrian. Doc was probably number 24 billion, nine hundred ninety nine million, nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine. I never win anything!

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