It took the iPhone App Store 482 days to hit six figures. The iPad did it in about 450.
A sampling of the iPad apps Apple says are "hot"
Sometime this week, the number of apps written or adapted for Apple's (AAPL) iPad hit the 100,000 mark.
It's hard to say exactly when. On Thursday afternoon, MacStories' Frederico Viticci noticed that the number posted on the iPad's App Store (under Featured/Release Date) had rolled over to 100,161.
That's curious because when we checked on Sunday with 148 Apps' Jeff Scott, who keeps his own count, he already had a total of 102,994. Meanwhile, AppShopper, which uses a different counting algorithm, is reporting a number that's 6,005 higher than Apple's.
No matter. It's a lot of apps. At least 35,000 more than the 65,000 Steve Jobs bragged about at the end of March.
And how are the iPad's competitors doing? That's even harder to say. A search of Google's (GOOG) Android Market Thursday turned up about 1,200 free Android tablet apps and 145 paid, or roughly 1/75th as many as the iPad.
Thanks to TNW for doing the iPhone App Store comparison.
For the second time in three weeks, an analytics firm jumps the gun
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"Apple's App Store Soars Past 300,000 Apps," reads the headline posted Thursday on the website ReadWriteWeb and picked up by SlashGear and GottaBeMobile.
Sound familiar? Perhaps that's because two other prominent tech news sites -- MacNN and VentureBeat -- reported that Apple (AAPL) had passed the same milestone nearly three weeks earlier, on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 5, 2010 6:44 AM ET
The iOS App Store is large and dynamic market place, and measuring its size can be tricky
Source: 148apps.biz
On Sept. 1, Steve Jobs announced that there were more than 250,000 apps to choose from in Apple's (AAPL) App Store.
On Saturday, two websites -- VentureBeat and MacNN, it's not clear which was first -- reported that the count had crossed the 300,000 mark.
Fifty thousand new apps in the space of six MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 17, 2010 7:40 AM ET
Someone must have lit a fire under Apple's (AAPL) App Store review staff last week.
Having drifted along for much of September, approving as few as 58 new apps on a single day, the staff green lighted "an avalance of apps" on Friday according to AppShopper.com. A total of 1,394 new applications were approved that day, 302 of them games.
AppShopper doesn't say whether Friday's haul set a new record, although that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2009 7:34 AM ET
Late last week, several news outlets reported that 10,000 iPhone applications had been released on the iTunes App Store -- an odometer moment that a site called 148Apps celebrated by creating a clickable mosaic of every icon in the store.
Trouble is, nearly 325 of those Apps had been removed from iTunes, putting the total number of active programs as of last Friday at 9,676 -- a figure nowhere near as MORE
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