Apple=100,000 iPhone Apps, Microsoft=246 Windows Mobile Apps
UPDATE: Oops. Sorry for the embarrassing headline typo. Fixed.
Leaping way, way ahead of competitors, Apple has approved more than 100,000 apps for the App Store, according to App Shopper, an app tracking site.
By contrast, there’s 246 apps for Windows Mobile, which has been around for six years, and about 96 apps for the Palm Pre (see Palm’s list of WebOS applications). Google’s Android,which is probably the iPhone’s strongest competitor, has about 10,000 apps, according to recent estimates. Google has yet to release official figures.
Apple in August said there were 65,000 apps. It took just another 10 weeks to approve more than 35,000 apps. (Apple has approved more than 100K apps, but the number actually available for download is slightly lower: about 93,000)
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: 
