The Apple App Store exceeds 40 billion downloads

Apple announced that customers have downloaded more than 40 billion applications, nearly half of last year, 2012. December 2012 has been the month of all records, with more than two billion downloads recorded. These statistics do not include re-downloads and updates.

Apple developer community has provided more than 775,000 programs for mobile devices, including more than 300,000 specially created for the iPad. The App Store focuses more than 500 million active accounts.