Apple’s iPhone did a lot more than change the face of mobile phone gaming. It’s changed the way a lot of people look at smartphones forever. In fact, with over 50 million users and over 85,000 apps available, there’s an app for just about everything the hardware can do, and peripherals to make it do the things it can’t right out of the box.

With over 125,000 developers using the platform (some of whom can actually say they’ve started coding for iPhone full-time), and more added every day, the iPhone train is headed downhill at full speed with no brakes. In the first few days of 2010, Apple announced that the App Store reached over 3 billion downloads.

To put that in perspective, in the past eighteen months, an average of 64 apps were downloaded every second.

With an all-but-confirmed tablet on the way and more iPods and iPhones flying off the shelves, that number’s bound to go up exponentially, controversy over the approval process or not.

Need to do something? There’ll be an app for that, now and in the future.