Apple’s iPhone passes the two billion app milestone

Everybody knew it was successful but it takes this sort of a milestone to really appreciate just how successful Apple’s iPhone is. Apple announced today that two billion plus and counting iPhone apps had been downloaded on it’s ingenious iPhone and new iPod touch systems. This milestone becomes even more significant when the considering the hockey-stick shaped acquisition curve the downloadable numbers take. Apple announced that the system had passed the 1 billion mark just this April. Next month the system launches in China, a country that has become notorious for gobbling down the latest and greatest techno-gadgets. With that kind of a head start, is it even possible for competitors in either the phone or the gaming space to catch up?