Apple Inc, creator of the iPod and the iPhone, has achieved another success with a website offering downloadable programmes for its mobile phone, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

In the month since Apple opened the App Store, a site that sells software applications for the iPhone, more than 60 million applications have been downloaded, Chief Executive Steve Jobs told the newspaper in an interview at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Sales in the first month amounted to around 30 million dollars or one million dollars a day.

Annual revenues of a billion dollars are possible, Jobs said.

"I've never seen anything like this in my career for software," he told the paper.

The third-party developed programmes include games, communication tools and and GPS applications. Many of the applications are free. Apple keeps 30 per cent of the revenue from the paid downloads while the programme developers get the remainder.