Apple celebrates App store's 5th aniversary

The App Store opened on July 10, 2008 via an update to iTunes. On July 11, the iPhone 3G was launched and came pre-loaded with iOS 2.0.1 with App Store support; new iOS 2.0.1 firmware for iPhone and iPod Touch was also made available via iTunes.

It’s been five years since Apple first launched the App Store, the company this week celebrating the origins of the iOS-tending software vending environment with a bit of a silent wave. You may have seen the “Apple Celebrates 5 Years of the App Store” that’ve been appearing in tubes to the doors of Apple-friendlies: it’s there that you’ll be getting the same information we’ll be running down here.

The App Store now boasts over 850,000 apps as it nears its fifth anniversary on July 10. To celebrate the event, Apple sent out several promotional posters, which detail the rise of the App Store along with some of the most popular choices available, including Angry Birds, Temple Run, Netflix and Paper.
The posters also noted the amount of money Apple has paid out to developers—$10 billion.