The mobile OS gods have weighed in today with official app counts. In the lead by a considerable, albeit diminished margin, is OS with “over 350,000 apps” followed by Android with 150,000. With the tremendous number of tablets and smartphones announced during CES and MWC, how much longer until Android takes the crown?
Here’s how the day played out. First, Apple released news of their new subscription model for content publishers. Packed within the press release was this conveniently placed tidbit, “the revolutionary App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to consumers in 90 countries, with more than 60,000 native iPad apps”.
Later in the day Google fired back. John Lagerling, director of Android global Partnerships at Google, told reporters at MWC 2011, “there are 150,000 applications on the Android market, which is a huge growth only in the last few months”. This number is considerably lower than the 200,000 applications claimed by James Brian of stockbiefings.com on December 31st.
Speculation over the number of available apps can finally be laid to rest. For now, Apple continues to offer the most applications for their more than 160 million iOS devices worldwide. With hundreds of thousands of Android devices being activated daily, combined with nearly every manufacturer in existence releasing an Android tablet — the war has only just begun.
Feel free to sound off about the numbers. Is Android’s rise to application fame inevitable now that they’ve launched a web app store and finally began sorting the kinks in their armor?
via Yonhapnews | Apple
