Apple announced at its WWDC event on Monday that the App Store now has more than 2 million apps available to download. These stats were shared by CEO Tim Cook who began the keynote presentation by highlighting the growth of the App Store.
The most impressive of all is that the App Store was launched just 8 years ago and is now host to 2 million apps, which have been downloaded 130 billion times since then. App Store has paid out nearly $50 billion in revenue to the developers. This figure stood at $40 billion just in January of this year, highlighting a rapid growth in the last six months.
Also the 27th annual WWDC this year saw more than 5,000 developers in attendance with more than 100 of those under 18. The event saw its youngest attendee being a nine-year old girl who Cook said will "make one heck of a developer" . Those attendees come from 74 different countries, with 72 percent attending the conference for the first time. 350 students also participated as scholarship winners.
The company also announced that there are now 13 million registered developers, with 2 million added in the last year alone. Added to the list of statistics revealed at the show, Apple announced that it now has 1,300 video apps on the Apple TV and a total of 6,000 native apps. And now Siri on the Apple TV can search through a total of 650,000 movies and TV shows. Also Apple News has 60 million monthly active user.
Finally, Apple Music launched a little over a year ago, and has since seen significant growth. Apple Music now has 15 million paid subscribers and the latest benchmark comes just two months after Apple announced 13 million paying subscribers for Apple Music.
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