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(Unverified)Jul 6th 2010 9:13AM
I cannot see any information to justify the comment "Not only does Android have significantly more free apps than either the iPhone or iPad".
The percentage of free apps is higher but the iphone market is probably much bigger. If I had a platform with just 4 apps and made 3 of them free I would get 75% free apps which is SIGNIFICANTLY more than either.
(Unverified)Jul 6th 2010 9:17AM
Ah, that's true -- the App Store does have more apps in total than the Android Market!
It's probably not a huge difference now though -- App Store hit 100,000 at the end of last year, and Android hit 50,000 in April this year.
But yeah, agree, my wording is bad.
Robert BJul 6th 2010 12:01PM
Actually, the Android Market has 85,000 apps, while the App Store has 225,000 apps.
I would be curious to see app category breakdowns and how those relate to price. For example, are the games roughly the same cost on both platforms, but the App Store developers charge more for the office apps?
sine909Jul 6th 2010 12:09PM
As of right now the Apple App Store has just over 226k apps (http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/). I believe it is roughly 4x the size of the Android store.
master811Jul 6th 2010 2:48PM
@sine909
Quantity doesn't mean quality. The Apple store may well have a lot more, but I'm sure it also has a lot more very crap apps too.
(Unverified)Jul 6th 2010 10:53PM
If you're going to claim "iOS has more apps, but they're lower quality" you should at least attempt to back it up in some way.
Apple at least has some kind of minimum standard for quality before they'll accept an app, if it has any obvious bugs, or if it's confusing, then it won't be allowed in the store.
Android has no such system, it accepts all submissions which aren't malicious — and so it seems likely Android would have a higher percentage of crap software than iOS.
master811Jul 8th 2010 7:50PM
@Abhi Beckert
That's quite possibly true, but at the same time, means a lot of very useful apps (like other browsers, the ability to turn your phone into a wireless router , politically incorrect ones etc.) will get blocked simply because Apple 'doesn't like or want them' and so without a genuine reason. I'm sure there's plenty of other examples simply because Apple 'says so'.