The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is quickly becoming the breading grounds for spam after more than 1,200 apps were added to the market over the past five days. According to WMPoweruser, the Marketplace currently hosts 19,283 apps, up from the May 23rd total of 18,000.
Judging by the Marketplace rate of growth chart (seen below), Windows Phone 7 looks to be on a roll. Unfortunately, a majority of the 1,200 apps are minor variants of existing apps. However, Windows Phone 7 is not alone in these app redundancies. Both Android and iOS have plenty of developers creating customized versions of apps for local markets.
While the need for such apps remains in question, the rapid growth could be a sign Windows Phone 7 is becoming an App contender. We’ve heard Windows Phone is destined to eclipse Android and iOS, maybe this is further evidence to those claims. Fact or fiction?
via WMPoweruser
