App Store catalog at 150,000, 75% of which will cost you
The Apple App Store, unsurprisingly and without much fanfare, passed the 150,000 application milestone this week. The world’s largest mobile application store, which contains over 27,000 books and over 28,000 games, has generated well over 3 billion downloads since its inception in July of 2008. Back in December 2008, when O’Reilly examined the App Store landscape, they calculated that 22% of the then 10,000 applications were provided free by developers. Today, according to analytics company Distimo, the App Store’s 150,000 app catalog has a ratio of 75% paid applications to 25% free applications; compare that with the second largest app store, Android Market, which has a ratio of 60% paid to 40% free. At the January 27th iPad announcement, Steve Jobs told the media that the App Store contained around 140,000 applications; Apple approved around 10,000 additional applications in the 16 days after that announcement.
150,000 useless app that do nothing to help a crippled phone network….
I wonder how baller of a network ATT would bee if Apple dumped that money back into ATT to improve it…..
Well “there is an App for That….”
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Michael, you need to get of the computer and get a job, and get the dirty dishes out of your room!
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haha. Michael’s Mom. Good one.
Sure thing mom when you stop bring home a different guy every night. I’m really getting sick of the snail trails your leaving all over the house. I’m not about to catch something from your dirty crotch.
lol…useless…i have 30 apps I use a least once a day..either for banking, scheduling, reading, blah blah blah…useless…what a joke…grow up
And I still can’t find one useful paid app and 99.9% of the free ones aren’t worth the time it takes to download, check out and delete.
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I see it like McDonalds claim, “Billions of hamburgers served”
Yeah but that doesn’t change the fact that they still taste like shit.
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You are really gay. Not only do you need to use other peoples handles, but the references you make constantly to penis’ really identifies you as a repressed closeted homo.
150,000 apps? So that’s at least 50,000 flaslight appsin some form or another…
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Iphone apps are awesome! That’s something I really miss now since I’m running android. It seems as though the developers care more and build better quality apps on the iPhone platform. I can only hope some day android will be able to satisfy me, because there are something I like about android, apps just not being one.
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What apps on the iphone are you unable to find on android?
I will satisfy you Amy
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well played, i was going to make a serious reply on what amy said…but i cant keep a straight face after your comment.
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Funny, everyone loves to hate anything that is growing in use. If anyone hating this platform was honest for one second they would agree that a company is giving tens of millions of users products and services they like. I remember when Apple was top dog in the late 80’s early 90’s. Apple screwed everything up then. In case no one remembers engineers use to have choices of software packages from numerous venders. This last week a few company’s jumped back onboard in a signifacant way. Slowly but surely Apple is setting itself up to be the dominant company it could have always been.
It’s just fun to watch all the hatred for this company again, now though it’s because they are successful.
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Growth in use / popularity usually leads to stagnation, which is evidenced by how little the iPhone has actually evolved since its first release.
Naysayers and competition are needed to propel innovation.
You are right on Sup. The platform has been stale for a while, but it’s still number one in the market. That said, every app I used on the iPhone I have been able to find it or an equivalent on the Android Market that is just as good.
@Sup Dooder,
So each time a new Android phone comes out you buy it? That would be atleast 5 phones a year right? With 5 different versions of the operating system? The may or may not work with all five phones? Really all one can say is wow!
I agree on competition though. There is this company that just goes out of their way to build the best product they can. Then months later numerous companies come out with “competing” products.
I guess with every innovator you have to have multiple followers. Hard to have an industry of one.
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Agreed. Android could be a powerful force if they could stop the fragmentation. I have a Droid, and for all it’s worth I like using it, but it does have it’s own issues. iPhone, Android, BBOS, and WebOS are where it will be at soon enough.
“Fragmentation” is exaggerated at best.
1) Use the reply function
2) I didn’t say anything about Android or owning Android phones. I don’t know how you got from my comment to that conclusion. I also don’t own an Android phone.
I think you missed the point on the stagnation issue. What he means is that the evolution of a phone shouldn’t take as long as what Apples Iphone has taken. Sure it makes good business sense as a ‘if it works why fix it’ kind of way. However, we’re beyond the days of old where phone upgrades were just for bug fixes. The new capabilities of phones and OTA updates has made it where new versions of a phones operating system can be released that are not only there to fix operational errors and tighten functionality but also to release new versions of an operating system that allows the phones to have new functions.
er… there’s been an enormous number of changes to the iPhone OS over the years. It’s hardly been limited to bug fixes. Heck, originally the iPhone OS didn’t even support apps. Granted the biggest changes happen only once a year, but the new OS has been available to install on every version of the iPhone, which is pretty cool. I don’t think the iPhone software has been stagnant at all. Granted the basic form factor of the hardware hasn’t changed, and I don’t think Apple will change it any time soon because they want backward compatibility with as many apps as possible.
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@QuickWeevil: iPhone, Android, BB, and WebOS are already where it’s at.
The 25% that don’t cost you are mostly free trials where you need to buy the full app anyway. This is Apple. Everything costs you, and costs you BIG.
True, i see a lot of that on my iPod touch. they’re mostly LITE apps.
The Android market has a lot of full apps.
have any of you seen the latest at&t add where everybody got droids. one woman said “where are all my apps” and another said something about it not being shiny. lol.
that was funny. so it seems like if all their apps aren’t the first they see and touch when they pick up their phone are lost. the iphone has spoiled millions of people, making them forget how to use a cellphone. you know like; “if i can’t see it, i don’t want it”
While I agree Apple has done well with the Appstore, personally I would rather use an Android device with fewer choices in apps, than to use the iPhone again.
They both have their issues, but the lack of organization on the iPhone just pisses me off. Scrolling through page after page to find the app or game I want is ridiculous.
As soon as Apple added the apps to the iPhone they should have set it up the same way it is in the app store.
I jailbroke my iPhone so that I could have everything on the first screen, no app was more than 2 touches away.
I don’t understand all the hate regarding Apple apps. I find it hard to believe that out of 150k applications, some people say they can’t find 1 that is useful? Then maybe the iPhone isn’t for you? While I agree that there are a ton of crapplications, there are plenty of useful ones as well. I personally use apps for the gym and tracking what I eat (these 2 alone are HUGE for me), have 3 apps specifically to help with my music (guitar and tablature), my USAA app so I can deposit checks from my iPhone, and Kindle so I can read when commuting. Add all the countless games and other time passing apps, how can you not like what Apple is offering?
I owned the Droid since November and just came back to the iPhone this month. The Droid is a great phone but the apps is what makes the iPhone the superior phone in my book.
Hate on mofos.
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People still buy iphones…?? Lmao!!!!
You can keep your iPhone and the apps for it. I’ll stick with my Android phone where more than 50% of the apps are free and many are very useful.
Read the article NumNuts…..only 40% are free apps.
I’m very selective my my Iphone apps and the ones I have I actually use and they come in very handy. I love the Kindle app that complements my Kindle well, Fandango, Epocrates, BGR, Engadget, Moviefone, Facebook, Yowza,Shazam, Red Laser, just to name a few. Half of my apps are free and the ones I pay for I consider essential. Anyway, with all that available apps, Imo, at least half of that are useful and that still comes out to 75,000, not bad.
Everything in the world can’t be free…
The iPhone started with free apps to draw publicity to their app store. This worked well not only for Apple, but also the program companies.
Not sure why people think Android will not follow suit with Apple. I mean, look at the OS. Very similar in appearance and function.
Just a thought.
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