It seems a lot of sites are reporting that Apple’s App Store has reached a colossal 10,000<\/strong> apps. To celebrate, the guys behind the eBook reader Classics [App Store<\/a>], which we also profiled<\/a> a while back, had Arn of AppShopper<\/a> source the icons for each individual application currently available on the store, and … well .. they made a huge collage outta them! It may not look like much from where your standing, but take a closer look and you may just stare at it for hours in complete astonishment … <\/p>\n First thing to note, there are not<\/strong> actually<\/em> 10,000 applications available to download. According to Appsherpa<\/a>, on their latest count, there are 9,630. So what’s the big news about this 10,000? – Well, 10,000 is thought to be the number of total apps that have been submitted to Apple for review. Of course a good chunk of 360 missing apps were pulled for copyright infringement, unsuitability, or as we’ve seen lack of utility<\/a> to users. Some of course didn’t make the store, being rejected on arrival to Apple’s inbox. Podcaster<\/a> for example.<\/p>\n Get this – Apparently, if you were to buy all<\/em> of the applications available on the App Store as of yesterday (30th Nov 08) , they would have cost you a wallet-denting $30,692.29 (\u00c2\u00a320,512.53)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Since applications are now being accepted into the store everyday, you can only expect this figure to grow, exponentially. <\/p>\n Here’s that collage:<\/strong><\/p>\n You can also see the original stock image used for the collage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A recent tweet<\/a> from Arn tipped us off on this.
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