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Essay / How mobile apps have changed our lives - 593
Indeed, apps are having a lasting impact thanks to Apple's work. Apple creates an absolutely perfect platform for purchasing and downloading applications, the App Store. All users can easily access the App Store and browse what they need. All developers can easily offer their application for sale and earn extraordinary profits. In such a perfect environment, users and developers buy and sell apps sustainably. We see that the number of downloads accelerates from 2008 to 2013. The App Store already has 40 billion downloads during the half-year of 2013. This figure is equal to that of 2012 alone (“App Store Tops”, 2013 ). In addition to creating the perfect platform, Apple is also acting as a pioneer in leading the trend of establishing a digital distribution platform for mobile applications. Apple launched the App Store on July 9, 2008. Followed by the App Store, Google launched its Android Market, a platform managed by Google ("A Brief History", 2009). So far, both stores dominate the app market. If Apple does not play the role of pioneer, other platforms will not appear and applications will not be able to have a lasting impact. Apple's work therefore has a massive and permanent impact on