Comments on: Crazy Big iPhone Numbers: App Store Downloads Pass Two Billion

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:07:55 +0000

Cool to hear that. Visited Copenhagen once years ago – liked a lot 🙂

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:43:07 +0000

As a new iPhone developer, I love hearing news like this. I'm not sure where some of you spend your time, but half the people I know have iPhones. They are everywhere. The bottom line is that the iPhone is a great product and Apple has done a hell of a job marketing the App Store. Of course, you can download apps for basically every other mobile platform as well, but a lot of people probably don't even know that. Sean My first iPhone app

By: AppleLunch

AppleLunch — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:38:27 +0000

Hi. I'm from Denmark and we have only had the iPhone for a year…. officially… and everywhere I go, there's an iPhone. Well, Denmark isn't the biggest country in the world, but I think it gives a clue to the spread in Europe. Besides, I haven't even seen a BB in Denmark yet 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:01:42 +0000

In reply to David. Color me gullible, but I tend to think (even with the recent Google Voice nonsense and apparent fibbing by Apple) these ate just lies that would come back to bite them in the arse and would not be worth the risk. Also, with the 70 million devices now running the iPhone OS, and the huge success the App Store has been since Day 1, I don't find it that tough to swallow. I'm not much of a numbers cruncher though. :)

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:55:54 +0000

It does seem a bit high so the numbers may be misleading. But I think it depends on where you are to see iPhone users. I mostly see students and young professionals rather than white collar business types with iPhones. But I live in a predominantly college town (Austin) that's big on all things geeky. When I travel, I see mostly BBs too. Of the iPhone users I've talked with, they usually have about 7-8 pages of apps (unless they are JB and use Categories).

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:56:27 +0000

I just dont believe it actually. Have you run the numbers? That's over 4 million downlads everday since they have been open which I find very very doubtful. I think Apple is lying to boost it's stock. I hardley ever even see an iPhone user when I'm out or flying. If there are as many as Apple claims I shgould be seeing them everywhere. Fact is I do see many BB users, far more than I see iPhone users.