Apple’s AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch is about to sell its billionth application. You can watch Apple’s pretty counter webpage, or you can see the downloads piling up and the rate of downloads visualized below. Unlike the billionth song download a few years ago, this is in (almost) real-time. The collected data and the Python script that generates the images using Google Charts is included.
Via EagerEyes (yes, that’s my own site; blatant self-promotion, etc.)
