![]() Several major apps launched in 2009: The acclaimedĭoodle Jump has earned more than $10 million since its launch in April of that year. Less than a month later, Sega’s Super Monkey Ball hit 300,000 downloads, netting Sega $3 million and Apple more than $1 million of its own, thanks to the store’s 70/30 revenue split. The App Store’s first weekend saw more thanġ0 million app downloads. ![]() ![]() The App Store launched simultaneously in 62 countries then, as now, it was accessible from a devoted iOS app, or as a feature sort of crammed into iTunes. Not-so-humble beginnings Steve Jobs announces the App Store.Īmong those 552 launch apps were many that still grace our home screens: MLB.com At Bat, Facebook, Yelp, Shazam, and Super Monkey Ball, to name a few. This is the story of the App Store’s success it’s a success that has come in the face of plenty of issues with the store, many of which persist even to today. But owners of iOS devices didn’t focus on the App Store lottery-they simply cheered the many awesome new abilities their devices gained. ![]() In the intervening years, the App Store has made some developers fabulously wealthy gave some a new, stable career and left others with broken dreams and disappointments. ![]()
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