Social Travel Apps Thrive as App Store Hits 40 Billion Downloads

Apple announced today that its App Store customers have downloaded more than 40 billion apps. It was a record-breaking year, the company said, with nearly 20 billion apps downloaded in 2012 and two billion downloads in December alone. Aside from popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, social applications for travelers are doing especially well.

Apple announced today that its App Store customers have downloaded more than 40 billion apps. It was a record-breaking year, the company said, with nearly 20 billion apps downloaded in 2012 and two billion downloads in December alone.

Aside from popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, social applications for travelers are doing especially well. On AppData’s leaderboard for iOS apps, Yelp is ranked #2 among travel apps (just behind Google Earth), with TripAdvisor at #12, Uber at #15, and Airbnb at #21.

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