App Store hits 1.5 billion downloads

It seems like every other month or so we’re reporting about a new benchmark for the Apple App Store. First it was 500 million downloads, then one billion. Well now the popular App Store has hit 1.5 billion downloads. It was just three months ago that the App Store hit the one billion downloads mark, at this rate it looks like they will hit two billion downloads in another three months. Even with the controversy over Apple not approving various apps it looks like the App Store is a force to be reckoned with and a major reason why the iPhone has sold so well, the iPhone 3GS sold over three million unites in three days.

Others have created their own App Store, from BlackBerry to the Nintendo DSi, but none will see the success that Apple’s has. I’m sure a good majority of the apps downloaded are free apps (no official work on how many apps are free or pay apps) but I’m sure Apple is raking in the money pretty good.

-Ray