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Steve Jobs: downloaded 60 million applications for the iPhone

It has been a month from the day debut last model communicator from Apple - iPhone 3G. Together with him was launched online service App Store. Steve Jobs, using the case, presented the audience some selected facts and figures:

     * At the moment, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for its iPhone and iPod touch, averaging 2 million downloads a day;

     * Total revenue from downloaded applications amounted to about $ 30 million. 70% of this amount went to the developers, and the remaining 30% - a corporation Apple.

     * If sales continue at the same pace as now, the Apple corporation will be able to earn at least $ 360 million for the year. "Sales of these things will soon reach half a billion" - Steve Jobs said in an interview with Wall Street Journal. "Who knows, maybe he will reach 1 billion mark in after a while… I have never seen anything like for his entire career."

     * Of the $ 21 million to get developers for the first month, about $ 9 million spent tens creators of bestsellers. The Corporation Sega, for example, said that she was able to sell more than 300 thousand copies of its popular game Super Monkeyball, valued at $ 9.99 for 20 days.

     * Dzhobs believes that a wide selection of applications for the iPhone - is what distinguishes it from the offspring of competing cellular phones. "We think that the future will be different phones on the proposed software" - said he Wall Street Journal.


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