SiliconBeat

More than 1.5 billion applications have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store, a sign of how much the one-year-old online site has re-arranged the smart-phone industry.
In just a year since it opened, the App Store lists an inventory of 65,000 free and fee-based apps created by more than 100,000 developers. The applications run on the Cupertino company’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”
The Cupertino company’s announcement comes on the heels of its latest iPhone release, the 3GS.