CHART OF THE DAY: The Impressive Growth Of App Store Downloads (AAPL)

This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Apple announced yesterday that downloads in the App Store had topped 40 billion. (Apple gave no specific date for when the milestone had been reached.) In any case, that's up from 35 billion in October and 30 billion last June. Overall, App Store downloads doubled in the past year alone. Using an exponential trend line, we pred...