Android Market About to Hit 100,000 Apps!

[milominderbinde]

A year ago there were only 6,000 Android apps. Now the Android Marketplace is set to hit 100,000 apps!

At the Droid X event on June 22, Google said that the Android Marketplace had hit 68,000 apps.

That's pretty impressive.

But looking at the tracking data from Androlib.com, that 68,000 app number may have been from June 1, 2010, not June 22nd when it was stated. And 21-day old data in the Android world is pretty old.

As of July 10, 2010, Androlib put the app count at 90,692 app with about 700 new apps being added each day. If you color outside the lines a bit as shown in red above, and do some quick math, it looks like Google may announce that Android has hit 100,000 apps by the end of July. As always, these numbers include apps, skins, keyboards, etc.

When Do You Think Android Market Will Hit 100,000 Apps?

 

[milominderbinde]

I am betting on July 24, 2010 as the date we hit 100,000 apps.

 

[davidnc]

I picked July 19th ,lol

 

[rem_kujawa]

I said 28th its closer to my anniversary

 

[melwan]

25th. I said so

 

[doctorlove316]

21st. No reason. Just felt like it. Yessir.

 

[Duvi]

Not this month if I'm counting "apps" and
not skins, ringtones and keyboards.

 

[maildroiddev]

Not this month if I'm counting "apps" and
not skins, ringtones and keyboards.

Agrees with Duvi. The problem with the 100k number is it includes the soundboards, 'hello world' test applications, and skins. These are not apps.

 

[PainKiller]

That's awesome but half of those are the waste-of-time junk apps.

Oh well, if that's what we have to deal with to also have the great apos then so be it. Open source.

~ Droid ~

 

[SeeK]

Kind of makes me wish someone would clean out all the crap that can barely be called "apps". But yes, 100,000 is quite nice.

 

[milominderbinde]

But we are comparing the Android Market to the Apple Market which also has at least 50% pure crap. 39% of the Android market is paid apps but even many of those are crap I hope no one ever buys.

 

[milominderbinde]

We have now crossed 90,000: 91070 apps

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

But we are comparing the Android Market to the Apple Market which also has at least 50% pure crap. 39% of the Android market is paid apps but even many of those are crap I hope no one ever buys.

I agree that if it's a numbers game (which Apple has made it) then we have to count the crapps.

 

[EvilMonkey]

Man, I would have guessed there were already 100,000 Asian Girls Wallpapers apps from just that one company.

 

[milominderbinde]

I agree that if it's a numbers game (which Apple has made it) then we have to count the crapps.

That is exactly it! We have just as much crap as they do! But we also have lists of amazing apps.

 

[milominderbinde]

The Android Market just crossed 92,000 apps.

 

[milominderbinde]

We are now at 92,556 apps. 7500 to go!

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

That is exactly it! We have just as much crap as they do! But we also have lists of amazing apps.

+1 Apple's marketing is good enough that they can make people overlook the fact that maybe 10% of the apps available (in any app store) are worth while and useful. After that you're getting copies of apps that are only slight variations on other apps. Sometimes that's good, but most of the time it's not.

I had a Pre and I remember Brighthouse Labs and how much that sucked when they started with their crapps in that catalog, and it isn't any better on Android.

 

[eyesparky]

Judging by the trend line up top I reckon today (or a couple of days ago)

 

[milominderbinde]

We just hit 93,097 apps in the Android Marketplace. I am still thinking that 7/24 will be the day...