Windows Phone Marketplace hits 50,000 apps

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Nosotros haven't been covering the whole "Marketplace hits Xxx" for awhile now, mostly because information technology got old, but we're returning for 'the big fiddy' aka 50,000. Co-ordinate to All About Windows Telephone, the app store is now at 50,126 items with 17k apps being added within the last 90 days. In fact, though it took a yr to hit twoscore,000 apps in the Market, another 10,000 were added just in the concluding 40 days, which hints at a strong improvement in rate-of-growth.

However, some caveats do apply hither. While in that location are over 50k apps, not all are available in all regions and some accept been pulled past the publisher or Microsoft, meaning they are no longer bachelor. In that sense, the numbers are a piddling more than sobering: "United states of america (42,655), UK (40,305), French republic (39,235), Spain (37,027), Italy (36,944), Federal republic of germany (36,958), Australia (37,024), Bharat (36,752) and Singapore (36,922)".

Number of items in Marketplace over months

All Almost Windows Phone also points out though that average number of submissions is at present 265 a 24-hour interval which is virtually double what it was a month agone when it was just 165--that increment in submissions is nearly likely due to increased awareness since the Gen 2 devices launched, especially Nokia'south push in Europe and Asia.

Other interesting stats note that 58% of apps are free on the Windows Phone Marketplace, with 14% existence paid with gratuitous trial and 29% are simply paid. This figure puts WP7 right in between Android (69% free/31% paid) and iOS (43% free/57% paid).

Months to reach 50k Apps

Finally, rate of growth is important to look at with Windows Telephone taking 14 months to accomplish 50k while Android took 19 months and iOS did it in only 12. The Android numbers show how fifty-fifty a slow-start can lead to explosive growth when all the right pieces are in identify (due east.thousand. device availability, advertizing, etc.) while iOS was a bit dissimilar since it already had around 4 million users even before it launched the Market place (that's really quite impressive). Sill, the Windows Telephone Market place numbers show very strong growth and it is notwithstanding very much a competitor against Android and iOS--given plenty fourth dimension.

Source: All About Windows Phone; Cheers, James, for the tip!