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"&amp;lt;vc&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;This week, Apple is believed to have crossed a major milestone, having approved more than 500,000 applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;\r\n\r\n148apps, Chomp and Chillingo on Tuesday sent out a large infographic to commemorate the achievement, revealing that the average price for an application is $3.64, while 37 percent of all applications are free. Though Apple is believed to have approved more than 500,000 applications, the amount of active applications available in the App Store is roughly 400,000.\r\n\r\nThe stats also reveal that it would cost $891,982.24 and over 7 terabytes to get all applications available in the App Store. And unsurprisingly, top-selling paid application by far is Angry Birds, which has held the No. 1 spot for 275 total days.\r\n\r\nIn comparison, Google's Android Market has about 294,000 applications, and 3 billion application downloads.\r\n\r\nThe website 148apps, search company Chomp and developer Chillingo have set up an &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/500kapps\"&amp;gt;official Facebook page&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; to commemorate the 500,000 applications. The chart also reveals there are 85,569 unique developers, with an average of 4.6 applications per developer.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/appstore-110524-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"800\" height=\"656\" alt=\"App Store 1\" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nApple hasn't yet made any announcements about App Store milestones, but is likely to do so at this year's &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/28/apple_to_hold_worldwide_developers_conference_june_6_in_san_francisco.html\"&amp;gt;Worldwide Developers Conference&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; starting June 6 in San Francisco. At the five-day conference, Apple has promised to \"unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,\" both of which now have their own App Stores.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/appstore-110524-2.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"800\" height=\"639\" alt=\"App Store 2\" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nApple has trumpeted a number of achievements for the App Store since it got off to a quick start &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/10/apples_app_store_launches_with_more_than_500_apps.html\"&amp;gt;in 2008&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. By late 2009, the number of applications available for download &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/04/apple_announces_app_store_offerings_top_100000.html\"&amp;gt;topped 100,000&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, and this January, Apple reached &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/22/apple_reaches_10_billion_downloads_on_the_ios_app_store.html\"&amp;gt;10 billion downloads&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of software from the App Store."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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