For those of you who don't like Apple's App Store concept I don't think Apple is worried since they have already passed 15,000,000,000 (fifteen Billion) apps downloaded mark.
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Number of MAC Users | Number Of | How Many:
W3Counter’s latest Global Web Stats, published in May 2010, report that the Mac OS X operating system has a 7.83% market share. Taking into account that there must be about 1.2 billion personal computers in use (according to Forrester Research, Inc.), the Mac user population is currently about 93.96 million. In three years, the number of Mac users has nearly doubled.
This fact is verified on : June 24, 2010. All facts are verified every 6 month after the last modification.
Even if the number of Mac users has doubled during the past year, the 188 million users would have to have d/l'ed an average of
80 apps each to reach the 15 billion d/l threshold.
Color me skeptical.
(150 million seems like a far more realistic number.)
Have you got a source for your number?
Edit 2: Or does that number include sales of the iApp store (in which case it still seems huge), which would put it in a whole different perspective?
