The growth rate of apps on the Android Market Place is quite impressive, in fact it’s explosive. Back in December 2009, just 4 months ago the number of Apps on the Android Market stood at 20,000, now it stands at an impressive 50,000+!
This Friday I became the proud owner of my first Android device, the beautiful HTC Desire and I must say I’m very impressed. I can finally see for myself why Android is really starting to take off as a viable competitor to the likes of Nokia, Blackberry and even Apple. There is just so much freedom and your not tied down to anything, even my phone was sim free, no strings attached.
The one thing I feared I would be missing when I made the change to Android would be the Apple App Store. Turns out however that the Android Market has a lot of the Apple apps in it as well and there’s only been one of two that I haven’t come across yet.
And now this news that the Android Market Place has cleared the 50,000 app milestone has really increased my excitement for the Android operating system.
While Google doesn’t normally tell us what the situation is on the Marketplace, other App tracking sites like Androlib are more than happy to. AndroLib is one of the biggest market trackers out there and monitors over 10 separate marketplaces in addition to the main one. 10,000 apps were produced in the first month alone of the Android Market and 4 weeks ago it reached 40,000. Now 4 weeks later it’s breached 50,000 with an estimated 50,031 approved apps.
This graph is only going up and long may it do so.
Now bear in mind that this does cover the 10 regional Markets which means that you won’t find 50,000 in any one Market but still it’s very impressive.
There is over 8,000 apps being produced every month, that’s over 250 a day! If this rate of growth keeps up, there will be over 100,000 apps by September, and somehow I think it might reach that figure sooner. Apple may have over 185,000 apps at the moment, but Android is fairly new to the game and is catching up fast.
This growth will only continue as Android continues to earn more of the market share and the likes of HTC and Motorola keep churning out great handsets running the latest editions of Android.
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