Android Market More than Doubles Number of Apps Since December
Android Market More than Doubles Number of Apps Since December
Posted 03/16/2010 at 3:20pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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It’s amazing what the high profile launch of a smartphone can do for a mobile platform. According to numbers that come straight from The Big G, the number of Android apps has more than doubled since December. This leaves it hovering somewhere around 30,000. Most of this growth is almost certainly thanks to the massive number of Droid sales. The Android Market may not have 150,000 apps like the iPhone App Store, but still quite a feat.
Android tends to have a higher ratio of free to paid apps than other application stores, so many of these new apps are available free of charge. Will the trend continue, or are we likely to see short bursts of app development around big phone releases? Google is doing their part by handing out Droids and Nexus Ones to successful developers. Where’s the tipping point where number don’t matter anymore? There will be a point that everything you need will be on various mobile platforms. The question is: does Android have what you need?
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CecilyLillie
April 11, 2011 at 3:50am
I've always been very happy with the Android applications, even if IPhone has many more. A friend of mine, who is an online Forex broker told me that the growth is mostly explained by the fact that many of these applications are free to paid. The question is: For how long Android can afford this?
nHeroGo
March 17, 2010 at 10:33am
I have missed this "app" hysteria.
We have 30,000 apps, or 80,000 apps, or 150,000 apps.Is the phone any good?
I have a crap cell phone, one with a touch screen, and it goes off all by itself in my pocket, connects to things, etc. So it works when it shouldn't. The opposit happens when you actually use the phone; the numerical key-pad goes away and the screen goes dark, so if you dial your bank and have to enter numbers and pins in the phone system menu you are already lost even before you start.
How is 260,000 apps going to help me? Is it any good? But more importantly, are the phones any good? Are the microphone cheap crap, and the speaker?
mesiah
March 16, 2010 at 9:35pm
I had a comment to make, but aparently the spam filter didn't agree with it. I'm surprised it let me make this one.
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