Communication · 2008

App Store

A single marketplace lets any developer ship software to millions of phones.

Apple's App Store opened on 10 July 2008 with about 500 apps, and Google's Android Market followed that October. App distribution created ride-hailing, mobile banking and mobile gaming, with millions of apps available by the 2020s.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Smartphone 2007

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people Latest: 112 per 100 people (2025) Source: Our World in Data

Share of people online Latest: 73.6 % (2025) Source: Our World in Data