Android Gets 50k Apps in 18 Months

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Google’s Mobile OS Android is running on a high now with developers showing huge interest in it. It has recently hit the milestone of having 50k apps.

It took 18 months for Android to achieve this magical number, which wasachieved by Apple’s App Store in 12 months. Apple App store now boasts 190k apps.

Other Mobile Operating Systems like Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian and Samsung’s Bada has not fared that well in this space. iPhone and Android has been developers favorite since launch, and this has made big changes in the Smartphone market.

Google reported in December 2009 that it the store had reached 16,000 apps. By mid-March 2010, the store had doubled its apps available to 30,000.

59 percent of apps are free while rest 41 percent is paid.

Here’s the monthly breakup of Android App launches.

Android Gets 50k Apps in 18 Months Free-paid-apps-in-android

Android Gets 50k Apps in 18 Months Android-apps-by-month

So what does this mean to you? Does it looks like Google will be taking over the lead of apps?

Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:04 am by Frankenstein · Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:04 am by Frankenstein

Wow :p

Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:22 am by Dragon88 · Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:22 am by Dragon88

^_^ if they do, it will be great for the future of apps. An it's always good to have good competition, so it will work out well for us consumers.

better apps and cheaper price rate .

Am loving how things are going in the tech w@rld right now. ^_^

Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:33 pm by karkooshy · Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:33 pm by karkooshy

I don't think google will take over the App business...
simply cause Apple has been there for longer, and that the apple apps are compatible with 2 very popular devices (and one new one ^^) the iPod Touch- which nearly everyone who can afford it, has it- the iPhone, and the new iPad... with all of their versions. Not to mention a small portion of previous iPod version apps.
But you never know xD
it's impressive though, how google took the next step from JUST being a search engine.

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