Apple’s App Store Surpasses 100,000 Applications!!
October 27, 2009 by johnrr6
As recently as mid-August when I first bought my iPhone3GS there was just a shade over 70,000 applications or "apps" for short…..available for the iPhone and iPod. At that time I thought this number incredible and after many visits and long hours searching through the "App Store" I have walked away with the feeling that there truly IS an "App for everything"—-as Apple is so quick to claim. In the two months since, the App Store has grown to over 100,000 applications! With a growth rate of almost 15,000 Apps a month!! Staggering!! The closest competitor is Android with less than 14,000 total applications and although popular—no where near the projected growth rate of this Apple success story. Microsoft doesn’t have an available platform to sell PPC and smartphone applications but is said to be eying Apple’s success with envy and building plans to compete. To visit the App Store, you must have iTunes installed but there are a host of different independent web sites that review the myriad of applications as they are released. Whether you own an iPhone or not, the growth rate and popularity of the platform and applications is remarkable. Read the story here: App Store Crosses Milestone: More than 100,000 iPhone Apps Approved - iPhone Hacks
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