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Apple App Store has over 100,000 Apps
Techtree News Staff, Nov 05, 2009 1434 hrs ISTLeaves its competitors lagging behind
Just a few weeks after crossing the 2 billion applications download milestone, Apple's App Store has crossed yet another landmark figure when the number of approved applications, available for download at the store went past the 100,000 mark.
The Apple App Store, launched just last year, has seen phenomenal growth in the period to become the largest online app store. Competing mobile OS platforms like RIM, Android and Nokia (with its Ovi Store) too have come with their own versions of app stores - but none of them really match up to the Apple App Store both, in terms of the number of downloads and availability of apps. Even the Palm Pre, which is considered a major competitor to the iPhone, does not have a store that offers as much as Apple's. In fact, the Pre, currently, has less than 500 applications for the WebOs platform! Then, there is Google's Android, which has always been considered a worthy rival to the iPhone platform. The Android App store boats of around 15,000 applications, which in itself is quite a large amount, but again, pales in comparison to what Apple has to offer.
There are, however, interesting counter points as well. While most Apple fans would say that the App Store has been one of the major points for buying the iPhone, critics point towards the fact that most of these 100,000 plus applications are me too versions of an app. Basically, what we have here is various applications for the same purpose. In fact, there are over 400 apps that do just what the original iPhone fart app did - just for example's sake. Then there is the claim that a large quantity of apps actually never get to see the front page of the App Store, which in turn leads to some apps being rarely used or downloaded. To make it clearer, only select popular apps are still being actively used and downloaded. The rest mostly add to the sheer numbers with many of them lying unused in the deep alleys of the Store with just some occasional user coming across it.
Having said all this, this doesn't take anything away from Apple who has, in little over a year, created a platform, nurtured it and has made it by far the top such product in its category. The others have merely followed.
The Apple App Store, launched just last year, has seen phenomenal growth in the period to become the largest online app store. Competing mobile OS platforms like RIM, Android and Nokia (with its Ovi Store) too have come with their own versions of app stores - but none of them really match up to the Apple App Store both, in terms of the number of downloads and availability of apps. Even the Palm Pre, which is considered a major competitor to the iPhone, does not have a store that offers as much as Apple's. In fact, the Pre, currently, has less than 500 applications for the WebOs platform! Then, there is Google's Android, which has always been considered a worthy rival to the iPhone platform. The Android App store boats of around 15,000 applications, which in itself is quite a large amount, but again, pales in comparison to what Apple has to offer.
There are, however, interesting counter points as well. While most Apple fans would say that the App Store has been one of the major points for buying the iPhone, critics point towards the fact that most of these 100,000 plus applications are me too versions of an app. Basically, what we have here is various applications for the same purpose. In fact, there are over 400 apps that do just what the original iPhone fart app did - just for example's sake. Then there is the claim that a large quantity of apps actually never get to see the front page of the App Store, which in turn leads to some apps being rarely used or downloaded. To make it clearer, only select popular apps are still being actively used and downloaded. The rest mostly add to the sheer numbers with many of them lying unused in the deep alleys of the Store with just some occasional user coming across it.
Having said all this, this doesn't take anything away from Apple who has, in little over a year, created a platform, nurtured it and has made it by far the top such product in its category. The others have merely followed.
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