60 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded in 30 days, Produces $30 Million in Sales

A very encouraging report for application developers and iPhone users. Here are the breaking stats as of this morning:

• Users have now downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone and iPod touch, about 2 million per day.
• Revenue from those applications came to about $30 million.
  
• 70% went to the developers; Apple kept 30%.
  
• At that pace, Apple stands to clear at least $360 million a year.
• Steve Jobs says “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” Jobs said in a Wall Street Journal Interview. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time…I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software.”
• Of the $21 million that developers cleared in the first month, roughly $9 million went to the creators of the top 10 best sellers.

Apple recently announced that they topped 5 Billion iTunes songs sold.