Android Market growing faster than iPhone apps

Posted by on Wed 24 Feb 2010

While Apple may be way ahead in sheer numbers, latest figures show Google apps have the wind behind them.

Stats from apps analytics firm, Distmo, show that while Apple's App Store is expanding at a 9 per cent rate per month (14,090 new apps a month), Android Market is growing at 15 per cent per month (3,000 apps).

Android's faster growth rate can, in part, be explained in that it's playing catch up - it only has 19,300 apps compared to the 151,000 in App Store.

But the with Apple drawing complaints from developers of censorship and Android handsets only really starting to break into consumer perception, could these figures be the harbinger of things to come?

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Android is expected to be the fastest growing mobile operating system from now until 2013, when the software will be the second most used smartphone OS in the world, after Symbian, according to a recent report from industry analysts IDC.

Distmo's figures also survey the minor players of the apps world - third place goes to Nokia offering 6,120 apps, then Blackberry (4,750), Palm (1,450) amd Windows Mobile (690).

In terms of cost, RIM's apps cost the most, an average of $8.26 for apps, Windows Mobile cost $7 on average and Nokia, Apple, Google and Palm apps all fall in the $2.50 - $3.60 price range.

Link: Techradar