Apple Hit Quarter of a Million Milestone With App Store

There's always talk of how the Android and BlackBerry app markets are way behind Apple in terms of the amount of apps available. Today the numbers have well and truly proved it. Back in Easter this year BlackBerry had just short of 5000 apps (minus games) on offer whilst Android had hit 50,000, there will have been a growth since then but nowhere near enough to catch up with Apple whose latest figure shows they have reached half a million apps after being open for only two years.

This is despite Apple removing the equivalent BlackBerry's entire market in porn apps as well as a cull on all wi/fi apps. There are now 252,227 iPhone apps available on Apple’s app store.

The latest figures also split the number of apps into their cateogires and give us a peak into what's popular at the moment. Not surprisingly books (43,759 apps) and games (36,646) are doing the best with entertainment (28,752), education (19,526) and lifestyle (16,021) closely behind.

The number of free apps in the store stands at 74,525, (29.55 per cent of the total.) The average app price for paid apps is $2.67 (£1.72).

Apple will be happy with the figures and they'll probably end up on some billboard or other in order to ridicule the smaller BB and Android app stores. But with most apps being primitive table hockey games and talking cats, is it really quantity that matters? The more apps there are the harder it is to find the good ones.

What do you think?

Source:  T3