Apple's App Store: More than Three Billion Served

Apple's App Store: More than Three Billion Served: "

Apple announced that over three billion apps have now been downloaded from its barely-18-month-old App Store.

The App Store now offers over 100,000 apps--over 20,000 of which are games--to more than 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch users in 77 countries worldwide.

After years of lurking in the fringes of the smartphone market, mobile apps have taken center stage, as RIM, Microsoft, and other vendors rush to populate their own online stores for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and other devices.

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