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By: 50 billion app downloads » A Recursive Process

50 billion app downloads » A Recursive Process — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:20:55 +0000

[…] Old posts from when Apple was at 25 billion app downloads. More questions: When will it hit 100 billion? 1 trillion? How many apps will be sold by December 25th? Any more? […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » [LOA] Hypothesis #3: Test Your Abstractions

dy/dan » Blog Archive » [LOA] Hypothesis #3: Test Your Abstractions — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:53:01 +0000

[…] we make the claim that the App Store's downloads grow linearly, that it will cross the twenty-five billion download mark in ten days, we're going to want to know […]

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:58:07 +0000

I’ve read this

It took Apple two and a half years to hit 10 billion App Store downloads, then less than six months to take this total to up to 15 billion and now, only another eight months to add 10 billion more downloads with the 25 billion total being smashed.

What kind of graph and predictions could we make with these figures?

(These figures seem to fit an exponential model – and suggest that 50 billion apps will take about another 10 months). I wonder if there is any more data available?

By: What Can You Do With What Can You Do With This? « Recipes for Pi: Making Smart Cookies

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:22:04 +0000

[…] Do With This?” kick for the past week in my 6th grade classes.Â They had so much fun doing the Apple Countdown (some of them stayed up to see if they could get it — one kid claims that he watched and waited […]

By: Dan Anderson

Dan Anderson — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:18:19 +0000

Some follow-up from exactly when it hit 25 billion from Apple PR: http://blog.recursiveprocess.com/2012/03/06/follow-up-to-25-billion-apps/

By: a different eric

a different eric — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:04:51 +0000

i had kids staring at the screen with their iPhones out waiting to download at the beginning of class. it was hilarious. one of the most engaging problems we’ve done all year!

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0000

You’re on my frequency, Dan. My math says it’ll happen tomorrow night at around 11:00PM Pacific Time. Feel free to give it a shot. I’ll be out of pocket. My next best hope was to snag Apple’s press release announcing the winner and hope they list the date and time.

By: Dan Henrikson

Dan Henrikson — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:39:00 +0000

This really has some of my students interested. Lets try to get screen shot of it hitting 25 billion so that we have an act 3.

By: Students Ask the Questions, and the App Countdown « Recipes for Pi: Making Smart Cookies

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:30:59 +0000

[…] by Dan Meyer’s post, I shared the Apple App Countdown with my 6th graders today in class.Â I’d never done any of […]

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:42:15 +0000

David Wagner:

Have you considered using Mechanical Turk? It is an amazing piece of technology. I bet you could prepare something useful pretty fast: a Turk task that just shows a picture and asks the viewer “What question does this picture make you want to know the answer to?” – and then compare results for a variety of variants upon the theme.

Ugh. Such a good idea. Bums me out I didn't think of it first. I could probably get a question or a skip out of each of them for a couple pennies a piece. Thanks for the thought.