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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Unfortuantely, nobody has the critical mass of apps like Apple has right now which is one of the main selling points so it's essential that the competition get really good and together and for Android to pick up steam.
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I use a Blackberry because it does what I need, so this isn't coming from a perspective of defending what I have bought.
According to Wikipediea
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As of June 7, 2010, there are at least 225,000 third-party applications officially available on the App Store, with over 5 billion total downloads.
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On 17 March 2009, there were about 2,300 applications available for download from the Android Market, according to T-Mobile chief technical officer Cole Brodman.[1]
By December 2009, there were over 20,000 applications available for download in the Android Market.[2]
By 23 June 2010, there were nearly 80,000 applications available for download in the Android Market. Recent months (in 2010) have shown an ever increasing growth rate, recently (in May 2010) surpassing 10,000 additional applications per month.[3]
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So there are 2-3 times as many Apple apps as Android apps, but the growth rate of android apps is crazy high (400% in 6 months).
Are there really a lot of apps that are available in the App store that are not available on Android Market? Especially when you consider the fact that there are obviously apps with duplicated functionalities within each group. How many racing games or spreadsheet apps do you need before you should just stop counting them?