Android Market Surpasses 100,000 Apps In Stock
The Android is getting bigger.
The Android mobile operating system is the fastest growing one in the U.S., and with it comes an ever-growing user base who are craving apps.
The Android Market has grown from its humble beginnings on the T-Mobile G1 to the multi-carrier, multi-manufacturer platform it is today.
Google's little OS hit a new milestone on Monday, as the AndroidDev twitter tweeted:
One hundred thousand apps in Android Market.
The multi-platform mobile OS does have a way to go, though, before even coming close to the insane number of applications that are available to Apple's iOS devices. Apple said during its recent Q4 financial call that it had amassed 300,000 Apps in its iTunes Store.
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Standards please! Possibly just the tiniest bit of screening as well? I like android, but I don`t like fragmentation and having to sift through BS to make sure i don`t get fragged.
ITS OVER 9000!!!
Standards please! Possibly just the tiniest bit of screening as well? I like android, but I don`t like fragmentation and having to sift through BS to make sure i don`t get fragged.
I'm gonna agree here, too many copycat apps out there and just plain junk on the android market
Between the 2 stores, 400,000 apps....
Maybe 300 worth buying/loading.......
Quality > quantity.
Andoid Marketplace or App Store, there must be plenty of s***ty apps I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole in there.
Both Apple's and Android's stores have mostly junk. Apple's 300,000 just means you have more of it to sift through (how many fart apps do you need?) As far as fragmentation, who cares? I haven't had any problem learning the different interfaces of the different apps. If the interface is bad then uninstall it. Only the fittest apps will survive. If this frightens you, get a flip phone.
What happened to Androids domination and all the hype saying it would be surpassing iTunes in a short period of time for app quota. It looks like they are lagging behind as the article says it only took iTunes 16mths to get to 100k and has taken Android 20mths for the same result.
A prime example for why there will be more apps on iTunes is as follows. iTunes is more secure against copying than Android as the vast majoirty of Apple handsets cannot run cracked / copied applications unless they are jailbroken. Whereas on a Android system or Symbian you can install cracked apps very easily. As a software developer myself why would i develop software for a platform where i am more likely to have my hard earned work bootlegged.
The good and useful applications can generally be found on both shops with an equivalent quality (although I still miss a decent Pilotwiz equivalent on Android). Besides that, the 99,95% of remaining applications seem to have nothing more to offer than the first "Hello World" application that I write on a friend's C64 when I was 9 years old so who cares if there is 200,000 or 5 million of them ;-)
One example of a developer that left Symbian and other open platforms is TomTom. There software was bootlegged and run on tons of Nokia / Windows mobile phones. Due to this they moved to iOS as it was a more secure platform. I suspect issues like this is why so many developers are not jumping on the Android platform so far.
I think Apple still holds the record for fart apps (883 at final tally),
Anyways, are the iPhone apps that people want to download better or worse than their Android equivalents?
That's what decides what device I'll get.
If they are, then a new Android tagline should be this:
100,000 apps vs. 300,000 apps.
Quality or quantity?
I hope windows phone 7 does as well (if not better)....
People say quality vs quantity, but I have to say that quality generally sucks on both app stores. The amount of apps actually worth downloading on both stores is way lower than the quantity, but there's not really any way to measure the number of useful apps on app store vs market.
I think a good measure should be quality, but that's subjective. Personally I'd prefer quality over quantity.
Between the 2 stores, 400,000 apps....Maybe 300 worth buying/loading.......
I think saying 300 useful apps is generous.
Just hope they don't run out of stock
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What a waste of time!! 100000 300000 hell go for broke make 1000000000 apps, who cares, just a load of crock!
Just like owning every possible songs as mp3 you can, and have more music than you can listen to in your lifetime.
Personally, I like to get outdoors as much as i can¬ away from all this stupidness!
Quality > quantity.Andoid Marketplace or App Store, there must be plenty of s***ty apps I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole in there.
I hope the "farting apps" developers don't discriminate towards Android and bring their flatulent expertise respectively to the Android market as well.
Who cares that there is so much junk? Android has an app called Appbrain, that does a great job of sifting out all the crap. The problem is too many people just sit there looking for Apps that do absolutely nothing for them.
way to sad to know there is so much junk out there
people bett
Between the 2 stores, 400,000 apps....Maybe 300 worth buying/loading.......
hehe and 299 are from android market
100,000 or 300,000; there's going to be crap in both those markets.
Even if the Android market had 500 apps in there, if they're all great and are properly useful, then that to me is better than 300,000 in someone else's store.
Sturgeon's Law in, according to Wikipedia, it's original form:
Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. are crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other artforms.
In the case of app markets, it seems to me that a lot more than 90% of the apps are not worthy of serious attention.
The number is important from a marketing POV to show that they are competitive with Apple. Otherwise, yep, 100K apps, a handful of great ones, mostly shit. Same in the Apple App Store.
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