Apple says people have downloaded more than 40 billion apps for the iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch, nearly half of them in 2012.
Apple Inc. said on Monday that December had record downloads of more than 2 billion apps. There are 775,000 individual applications available in the app store. Apple says it has paid app developers more than $7 billion.
Apple opened its app store in 2008. The 40 billion milestone does not include updates or re-downloads.
