There are more free applications for Android than for iPhone

You could say that Apple has created one of the business models of software sales most interesting and successful of recent years with its AppStore. In January reached 10 million downloads since its release in June 2008 which, coupled with sales of its devices, is a sign of their success.

Still, being first is no guarantee of anything, and the harsh policies of Apple for approving applications, which they justify by saying that what makes for "maintenance in the quality of its ecosystem of applications - also play against him. If we add the rise of Android devices (which we talked about some other time, compared with Windows) has made more developers are set to the operating system.

An example of this comes from Dysthymic , a company dedicated to making up the current state of the different ecosystems of applications for different platforms. In its latest report has emphasized the price of the applications on each platform, finding several interesting facts, one being the fact that the number of free applications for Android-estimated around 134,342, and applications than cheese can get without paying the Apple AppStore, with the not inconsiderable amount of 121.845-free applications.

Although the difference is not great we talk about two things: the tremendous growth of Android although much has been said about the problem of fragmentation and the predominant type of users in each of these platforms.

As you can see, the AppStore for iPhone is still the largest application store, beating Androis over one hundred thousand applications, and the sum of the three stores of applications for Apple's iPhone, and Mac iPad Appstore-us leaves more than 400,000 applications in total.

Yet this provides only a partial picture about the different AppStore, as illustrated above are among some newcomers (such as the application store for Windows Phone 7 ), who are just developing, that is why Dysthymic that also gives us a statistic that illustrates the growth of application stores so far in 2011 and its estimate for the first half of this year.

This chart gives us a broader picture of the current status of the various platforms. One of the first things you notice is the forecast that the Blackberry appworld exceed in size to the Ovi Nokai Store, although it is logical after Nokia's alliance with Microsoft to develop devices with Windows Phone 7.

You can also see that the growth of the iPhone AppStore has stabilized a bit. which does not happen with the Android Market , which continues to grow at a much steeper positive slope and continue this pace is likely that by the end of the year are more applications available for Android than for iPhone, but probably the fastest growing store this year is proportional to the Windows Phone 7, which is estimated to grow almost 350% by mid-year and is expected to soon be bigger than the OVI Store .

The application stores are today and what it shows. Whether for mobile devices, web applications or desktop applications, the appstore, but Apple does not like to use that term - have become the preferred way to distribute software and along with it is a simple way to measure success of every platform.

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There are more free applications for Android than for iPhone written ALT1040 April 28, 2011 zapata131
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