Apple’s App Store has reportedly crossed the 20,000 download mark, suggesting the popular site has added 5,000 iPhone and touch applications since mid-January.
Apple refused to comment on a report the figure was reached less than a month after the Cupertino, Calif.-based company announced 15,000 App Store entries. The update was reached Tuesday, according to the Apptism site.
As of Wednesday morning, the App Store held 20,410, according to Apptism.
The App Store, launched July 11, 2008 with 500 applications, has steadily grown, offering useful as well as just plain silly diversions for iPhone and iPod touch owners.
The latest claim “isn’t outside the realm of possibility,” according to Macworld. It took just around a month for the store to go from 10,000 apps December 5 to 15,000 downloads January 16, the publication noted.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
