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iTunes Store: applications to overtake songs in number of downloads this year

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 6:48PM EST
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Aysmco is reporting that iOS application downloads on Apple’s iTunes store should overtake the number of song downloads sometime this year. The report is based on figures from the recent September 1 update to the iTunes Music Store and the iTunes Application Store. Asymco writes, “the App store has reached the same total downloads in 2.2 years as the iTMS reached after five years. The two curves are likely to be the same height (around 13 billion each) before the year is over.” Anyone surprised by the findings?

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