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Android Market Stats: 200,000 Apps, doubles since July

December 28, 2010 | Author:

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Google’s Android Market has been growing exponentially over last few months, it has now attained 200,000 apps mark.

Looking at the stats of Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, iPod and iPad, they still are higher in number at 300,000 but the gap is closing down much faster than we expected.

It has doubled since July in nearly 5 months.

At this point the word is not official but the Android Market tracker AndroLib.com is currently showing a total number of over 200,000 application and games available for download via the software portal. The point to be noted is that they ONLY have apps that are ON the market, no other stuff.

Download Stats: There is an significant rise in download stats as well. There are Over 103 downloads per second on average at the moment.

According to some of the latest estimates, the operating system would be able to beat iOS in 2011, and eventually take the first position on the mobile market by 2014, beating Symbian, but no one would be surprised if it  happens before that.

Until official word on the number of applications and downloads in the Android Market is released, you can have a look at the latest stats available on AndroLib.com here.

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  • Anonymous

    Whether there are 100,000, 200,000 or 1 million apps is meaningless while Google lets any junk, spam, malware, “hello world” or test app etc into the Android Marketplace. Also, “apps” in the Android Marketplace include wallpapers, widgets, soundboards and ringtones making the total of actual apps far less.

    Recently, AppBrain posted that 45,000 of the 100,000 apps in the Android Marketplace were spam apps. That makes almost half of Android’s “app” total spam!

    John “DVD ” Lech Johansen, the author of DoubleTwist the popular iTunes replacement for Android has this to say about the Android Marketplace:
    “Google does far too little curation of the Android Market, and it shows. Unlike Apple’s App Store, the Android Market has few high quality apps…. just a few examples of what’s wrong with the Android Market. … 144 spam ringtone apps (which are clearly infringing copyright) are currently cluttering the top ranks of the Multimedia category… Developers and users are getting fed up and it’s time for Google to clean up the house.”

    An indication of the difference in quantity of quality apps between iOS and Android is no more evident than in the extremely important gaming category. Android is severely lacking in big name game titles from all of the largest mobile game publishers with only 16 games from Gameloft, Capcom Mobile, EA, Ngmoco, Pangea, Popcap and ID versus 309 from these publishers for Apple’s iOS. Likewise, there are 38,000 games in total for iOS vs 13,000 for Android.

    Although Popcap and EA have said they will start porting some games to Android soon, this disparity is not likely to change much with iOS developers making 50x the income ($1 billion) compared to Android ($21 million) over a similar timeframe according to Larva Labs and with piracy ranging from 50-97% on Android.

    Raw numbers do not a complete picture paint.

    -Mart

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