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Well, it finally happened.  Apple just delivered its 1 Billionth application download from the App Store, which currently features over 25,000 apps (35,000 by one estimate) built by thousands of developers. The significance of the milestone (besides just the 1 billion mark) is that it’s taken only nine months from when the App Store launched on iTunes to hit 1 billion paid and unpaid downloads.

Last summer, Apple sold one million 3G iPhones worldwide across 21 countries in the first 3 days on sale. During that same time, iPhone users made 10 million app downloads from the then newly launched iTunes App Store.

The count was at 300 million in early December, and the App Store hit 500 million downloads by January 16th.  It took Apple six months to reach the first 500 million downloads.  It would take Apple only three months to get another 500 billion downloads.  By March, 2009, it was at 800 million.  We started keeping track via Apple’s billion-app countdown at around 928,077,779. Apple also offered us a fleeting glimpse of the most popular apps ever, something the company only did once before.

Apple apparently already had a hunch of when the billion mark was going to be passed, because the billionth app celebration page was already ready to go.

Apple predicted the time when the billionth app would be downloaded: 1:24:06 AM PST on April 23. That didn’t happen.

The number of different apps available has also been growing  steadily.  In November, the app store had 10,000 apps, and grew to 15,000 by Apple’s quarterly earnings call in January. Within a month, the app store added 5,000 more apps, bringing the total available apps up to 20,000. By March, the app store has over 25,000 apps.  Now, according to an estimate by App Store analytics firm Mobclix, there are 35.550 apps worldwide.

Some lucky iPhone user who downloaded an app in the past two weeks will win a $10,000 iTunes gift card, MacBook Pro, Time Capsule, and iPod touch. We also hosted our own contest to see who could guess when the billionth app would be downloaded and we will release the results soon.

Here’s a current list of the top apps, free and paid, downloaded, courtesy of Mobclix. The numbers next to the global stats indicate how many countries had that app ranked as #1.:

Top 5 free (Global):
1: Heat Pad - Relaxing Heat Sensitive Surface (17)
2: Skype (9)
3: Ferrari GT Evolution: Lite Version (6)
4: Racing Live (4)
5: Yahoo! Messenger (4)

Top 5 paid (Global):
1: Camera Zoom (12)
2: Flight Control (11)
3: Playman Track & Field (3)
4: Wild West Pinball (2)
5: Airport Mania: First Flight (2)

Top 5 free (US):
1: Catcha Mouse
2: iDare
3: F-MyLife
4: Heat Pad - Relaxing Heat Sensitive Surface
5: Dictionary.com

Top 5 paid (US):
1: Flight Control
2: StickWars - Siege
3: Pocket God
4: iHunt 3D
5: ParkingLot

[photo: flickr/thetruthabout]

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Microsoft just announced earnings for its third fiscal quarter. Revenues were down 6 percent to $13.65 billion, and net income was down a whopping 32 percent to $2.98 billion or $0.33 EPS. Analysts consensus was closer to $14 billion for revenues and $0.39 for non-GAAP EPS, which Microsoft met thanks to its cost-cutting measures. Still, this can’t be feeling good for Microsoft.

The company is exposed to the weaknesses in the economy in general, and soft demand for PCs and servers in particular. Revenues in its Client business (Windows) was down 15.6 percent to $3.40 billion. It’s servers and tools business proved the the healthiest with a 7 percent increase in revenues to $3.47 billion, marking the first time I believe that servers and tools brought in more revenues than the client business.  The online business saw revenues decline 14.5 percent to $721 million, and its loss doubled to $575 million.

The online business suffered from a 16 percent decline in advertising revenues, driven by lower display ad rates. On teh bright side, page views and search queries on Microsoft sites were both up.

1.7 million Xbox360 consoles were sold in the quarter, up 30 percent, but revenues for the Entertainment and Devices business remained flat at $1.57 billion. And it actually dipped into an operating loss of $31 million.

Net cash from operations was $6 billion in the quarter, $1 billion less than a year ago, but Microsoft still ended the quarter with $25.3 billion in cash on its balance sheet.

Here is the breakdown in revenues and operating profits by business:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Segment Revenue and Operating Income (Loss)
(In millions) (Unaudited)

And here is the main income statement and balance sheet:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

INCOME STATEMENTS
(In millions, except per share amounts) (Unaudited)

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

BALANCE SHEETS
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⁽¹⁾ _{Derived from audited financial statements.}

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It seems that if you set your clock forward to Friday the 24th, Apple’s homepage shows that the billionth app has been sold! Huzzah! Of course, that implies that Apple is pulling one over on us and will declare the billionth app sold whenever it feels the time is right.

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A billion App Store downloads, whenever Apple says so