Apple=100,000 iPhone Apps, Microsoft=246 Windows Mobile Apps
4:31 pm, October 27th, 2009, Leander Kahney
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)
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It will be interesting to see if in-app purchasing does anything to pare this number down.
Please keep us informed as usual.
Frank Lowney, on October 27th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
FYI: 6 zeros (in headline) = 1 million.
Jason, on October 27th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Is it just me or is the title a typo? I was amazed when I read 1 Million apps!
nick Williams, on October 27th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Looks like they fixed it. I had the same reaction initially, Nick.
Jason, on October 27th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
… but 95% of these apps are useless…
mariov, on October 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Another correction is in order. Palm has 257 apps available in its app catalog on the Pre. The website dpes nlot list all the apps.
Not that it changes the point you are making
Mike, on October 27th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
The Palm Pre gets a bad rap in this article. Although still less than 1% of the apps available for the iPhone, the Pre actually has more than three times the 96 applications mentioned above.
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splicer, on October 27th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
this is brilliant. go go apple. actually depending on how you want to slice it, windows mobile has been around in different forms for more than 10 years now. and yes google is doing very well. and to the whinger who thinks the apps are not useful, that is just your opinion – not a fact. if you negative people say it enough it wont become fact.
saman Jebeli-Javan, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Way to be misleading. You obviously already know that there are hundreds of thousands of Windows Mobile apps available, but you’d prefer to pick the paltry number in Microsoft’s Marketplace.
nak, on October 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
In the time windows mobile has been around, there’s been a LOT more than 246 apps. Maybe in the app store, but what about those that are downloaded from people’s websites? I’m guessing there’s a lot more than what apple has to offer.
And just like apple’s, most of them are useless junk. The only benefit Apple has (besides the iphone is better than most winmo phones) is that their apps haven’t been known to cause viruses or anything.
AT, on October 28th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
are all 100,000 of apples apps fart apps or is that only 1000 of them?
john, on October 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
So, you gonna fix that misleading headline or what?
amnigo, on November 4th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Actually, I have More than 246 apps on my windows mobile phone, lol, jk. There are probably 100′2 of thousands of Windows mobile apps because windows mobile has been around for a long time, but their App Store hasn’t and is strict since Windows mobile does multitasking apps thats are promoted by MS need to not detriment the OS Experience since the Windows Mobile apps can have complete access over all aspects of the phone (yes they can make a windows mobile phone behave very much like an iPhone), windows mobile is about choice, you don’t HAVE to buy apps from Microsoft, its just an easy option. Also windows mobile can run almost any Java app =D and thats in the millions.
Brant, on November 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am