Report: Android Market Tops 200K Apps

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In a matter of months, it appears that Google's Android Market has doubled in size. Numbers from AndroLib.com show more than 200,000 apps available in the store as of Tuesday.
At the end of October, Google confirmed that the Android Market had surpassed the 100,000 app milestone. Google has yet to confirm the latest numbers.
However, Apple's App store is still the largest source of apps, with more than 300,000 applications in its catalog. But with more than 2.5 billion apps downloaded from the Android Market, said AndroidLib.com, it seems Google's platform is gaining ground.
The Android Market debuted in October 2008 with just 34 apps and nine games. Google started accepting priced applications from developers in the U.S. and the U.K. in February 2009. The very next month, the Android Market reportedly had 2,300 apps, and that number surged to 20,000 by the end of the year.
2010 has seen huge growth for the store, as well as the platform itself. In April, the Android Market hit 38,000 apps. In July, Google contradicted AndroLib's reports of 100,000 apps in the store and said that the official figure was closer to 70,000.
Comparatively, Apple's App Store was launched in July 2008 and reached 100,000 apps in November 2009; several months after it achieved 1.5 billion downloads.
Google vice president of engineering announced earlier this month that 300,000 Android devices are activated every day. His announcement came just months after the company's chief executive Eric Schmidt said that Google was activating 200,000 Android devices daily.
In November, comScore reported that Android had 14.9 percent of the global market, a 6.5 percent increase from the October statistics. In the U.S., two separate studies have said that Android was ahead of both RIM and Apple in the last quarter, with 44 percent of the market.

Source: PCMag