Apple's online store for applications for iPhones, the App
Store, has sold 1.5 billion applications in its first year.
The App Store has more than 65,000 applications created by more
than 100,000 developers.
These applications include thousands of business applications
which improve personal productivity and can be bought for as little
as 59p. Last week Computer Weekly
picked an application for every month of App Store's life.
Steve Jobs, CEO at Apple, said the App Store is unlikely to be
copied by its competitors any time soon.
"The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before
in both scale and quality," said Steve Jobs. "With 1.5 billion apps
downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch
up."
