A 68% growth of the Android Market applications in March

13th April, 2010 by adina
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Android applications reaching the Android Market have grown by 68 percent in March, according to AndroLib. The number of titles appended to the store has reached 5,532 in February, while the application number has grown by a much larger number, 9,320 titles last month. There is no official estimation for the total Android catalogue, although Google recently put an official mark at 30,000.

What triggered this growth is not known, but it came about five months after the Droid launch and two months after the Nexus One. These two were the earliest phones based on Android 2.0 or later and brought an important improvement of the performance and features of the Android platform. The Droid’s success in the United States created a significantly larger market for Android applications compared to the previous situation.

The mobile store of Google is significantly behind that of Apple. The latter has more than 150,000 applications and has reached Android’s current figures months ago. However, the gap seems to get narrower due to the fact that many iPhone developers are now writing for Android, in order to cover the widest audience possible.


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