There are now 1 million iPad apps

Apple said today that there are now over 1 million apps designed for the iPad. It’s a big milestone that speaks to just how robust the app ecosystem is around Apple’s tablet, and suggests that it isn’t slowing down. The App Store itself only hit 1 million apps overall in in late 2013, at which point half of those apps supported the iPad. Two years and a few months later, the iPad figure has doubled.

At this point, the iPad is nearly six years old — about the same age the iPhone was when the App Store hit 1 million. Apple is still fighting for its tablet to be seen as a device that can truly be used for creation, rivaling a laptop, and it’s the increasingly good apps made for it that help make that a compelling argument.