Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the year. Top sellers included Angry Birds, Doodle Jump, Cut the Rope and Fruit Ninja, and the iAd network launched in July.
- Vendor
- Apple
- Released
- 10 July 2008
- Type
- platform
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