With just two days until Wednesday’s fifth anniversary of Apple’s App Store, the company conveniently delivered a celebratory poster highlighting key moments in the application’s store five-year history. And just a few hours ago, Apple slashed a number of premium apps and games to zero bucks. In in another tease, a new section dedicated to the anniversary has just gone live on the App Store. The ’5 Years of the App Store’ is accessible both in desktop iTunes and the stock App Store app on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices by following this link…
As we previously reported, to celebrate the big event Apple has discounted a number of premium games and apps to zero bucks, including the $19.99 Traktor DJ software, the $4.99 Day One journaling app and such triple-A games as Infinity Blade II, Tiny Wings and more.
The new App Store section now also highlights these apps.
The page reads:
"From the 500 apps available at launch in 2008 to the more than 900,000 at your fingertips today, it’s been a remarkably prolific five years for the App Store.To celebrate, we’re giving everyone five landmark games and five groundbreaking apps for a limited time.
Plus, look back at the key moments that have made the App Store the world’s most innovative destination for apps."
The App Store Twitter account shared this nice teaser graphics.
The interactive section lets you explore key highights in the App Store’s five-year history. The very first milestone concerns the July 10, 2008 launch of the App Store.
Apple’s application store went live in 62 countries with 500 apps available, including MLB.com at Bat, Super Monkey Ball, eBay, Travelocity, Facebook, Shazam and Yelp.
By latest count, the App Store is home to over 850,000 apps, of which 350,00 are native to the iPad. During the WWDC keynote, Apple CEO Tim Cook proudly said Apple thus far paid an astounding ten billion dollars to developers writing these apps.
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