Apple App Store celebrates its fourth anniversary today. Iphone has been around for half a decade now, but the app store was launched a year after the iPhone introduction. From 500 titles initially, it has grown to a massive 650K titles as of today, and counting! Distimo’s new report tracks the evolution.

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Mobile analytics firm, Flurry, pegs the total app downloads on both iOS and Android platforms together at 25B by 2011E. That’s a 300% spike year over year. 5B app downloads is expected in Dec, 2011 alone, as holiday shoppers are expected to buy more smartphones and hence download more apps.

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Apple just announced that they have crossed the 15B app download milestone, since the app store launch 3 years ago. The user base of iOS amounts to 200M and counting, with them having a choice of 425,000 apps to choose from, including 100K pure play iPad apps.

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ABI Research states that app downloads have accelerated as smartphone sales surges. In 2009, an estimated 2.4B apps were downloaded across platforms and is forecasted to touch 6B by the end of this year. Spike in smartphone sales and proliferation of app stores are said to be the key demand drivers for app downloads. iPhone is expected to lead the race through the forecasted five year timeline.

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Google announced a new mobile feature on it blog yesterday, where apps from iTunes and Android would show up on google mobile search. The mobile search engine will search these app stores and display ‘special links and content at the top of the search results’. This could enhance the app discovery process for the users and possibly result in higher download rates. The service is currently available only in the U.S , with other countries and devices being planned for the near future.

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In the previous post, we’d reported a bloated figure of 600-700K iPad sales on Saturday, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s estimate. His earlier forecasted sales of 300k+ units was spot on, with Apple confirming the news in a press release yesterday. This is only the Wi-Fi unit sales with the 3G version expected in a few weeks.

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