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It's official: Apple's App Store has hit 10 billion app downloads.

Apple recently <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/01/14/app-store-10-billion/">started a countdown for the 10 billionth app</a> and launched a contest to give a $10,000 iTunes gift card to the person who downloaded it.

At the end of September 2009, the App Store <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/2-billion-apps/">hit 2 billion apps downloaded</a> and by January 2010, <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/05/three-billion-app-store/">there were 3 billion downloads</a> from the App Store.

However, it took just more than a week for the app store to generate 250 million downloads, a testament to the incredible growth of Apple's iPhone and iPad App Stores and, most recently, its <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/01/06/apple-launches-mac-app-store-with-more-than-1000-apps/">Mac App Store</a>.  At this pace it will be able to hit 20 billion app downloads before the end of the year.  It will probably grow even faster than that though, thanks to the <a href="http://mashable.com/tag/verizon-iphone">Verizon iPhone</a>.

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