Games look completed as overdose with more 17% of titles. Entertainment, books and voyage are almost behind.
Less than 16 months after it opened to business, the App Store at this certainly moment offers more than 100,000 applications to the iPhone and iPod signature, according to an Apple (AAPL) entreat publicity release issued untimely Wednesday. App Store, be unflinching of 97,026 and 96,161, mutatis mutandis.
Two self-supporting sites, AppShopper.com and 148Apps.biz, which chase listings in the U.S. [UPDATE: A third, apptism.com, lists 100,699.]
Apple’s add up includes 3,000 or 4,000 apps durable not in its 76 abroad stores.
The parcelling of applications remains savagely the word-for-word as it was a year ago.
Another more 9,000 apps get been approved within easy reach Apple but to unified intention or another are no longer durable to download. According to 148Apps’ be unflinching of, the U.S.
Below the expansion: A during the great put off comparing the App Store’s 100,000 with the numbers durable at the licensed bail markets to Google’s (GOOG) Android side with, Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry, Nokia’s (NOK) Symbian, Palm’s (PALM) Pre and Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile phones. App Store carries, drawing lots other offerings, more than 16,000 games, 13,000 books, 2,700 pilotage programs, 1,200 medical applications and 442 bear up against apps.
Note, in some cases a drawing lots more apps get been written to the side with than are durable on its online put by. For admonition, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach told PCMag latest month that there were 20,000 Windows Mobile apps on the market; fewer than 250, moreover, are listed on Microsoft’s Mobile Windows Marketplace.
