WINDOWS PHONE MARKETPLACE HITS 50,000-APP MARK
Nearly a year and two months after the launch, Microsoft‘s Windows Phone Marketplace has strike a new milestone.
The pick up of apps and games that run on Microsoft‘s Windows Phone inclination right away sits north of 50,000 applications, according to a count by the blog All About Windows Phone. More than a third of those were combined in the past 3 months, and scarcely sixteen percent inside of the past thirty days, the site said.
In actuality, users have access to fewer than the 50,126 equipment on the store as of today, with about 6,000 apps carrying been private from the store over time, slicing the sum equate in the U.S. to 42,655 apps.
App volume in the Windows Phone Marketplace in in between Oct 2010 and Dec 2011.
(Credit: All About Windows Phone)
The Windows Phone Marketplace’s final large benchmark was 40,000 apps, a number Microsoft reached reduction than a month ago, followed by 45,000 on Dec 12. Both of those counts, which were logged by All About Windows Phone, set Microsoft to strike the sorcery 50,000 number by the initial week in January, a benchmark today’s sum bests by a week.
In further to the total, the new numbers uncover that the volume of apps and games combined to the Windows Live Marketplace any day is increasing. At the 50,000 mark, Microsoft’s edition 265 new games and apps any day, up from the 165 a day sum from mid-November.
As referred to in prior coverage, Microsoft’s app volume comes in extremely reduce than that of the competitors, which had a multi-year conduct begin on their platforms. Apple’s App Store, for instance, tops 500,000 apps as of May, with a more new and unaccepted equate from app tracker Appshopper.com putting that sum at 526,855. 150,000 of those apps were published inside a 4 month time period. As for Google, an altogether app equate from analytics organisation Distimo pegged the volume at 380,297 applications in October.
Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe nearby the end of Oct final year, bringing it to North America in the second week of November. The height is a reboot of the company’s Windows Mobile height and ties in with a number of the program and services together with Microsoft Office and Xbox Live.
Nearly a year and two months after the launch, Microsoft‘s Windows Phone Marketplace has strike a new milestone.
The pick up of apps and games that run on Microsoft‘s Windows Phone inclination right away sits north of 50,000 applications, according to a count by the blog All About Windows Phone. More than a third of those were combined in the past 3 months, and scarcely sixteen percent inside of the past thirty days, the site said.
In actuality, users have access to fewer than the 50,126 equipment on the store as of today, with about 6,000 apps carrying been private from the store over time, slicing the sum equate in the U.S. to 42,655 apps.
App volume in the Windows Phone Marketplace in in between Oct 2010 and Dec 2011.
(Credit: All About Windows Phone)
The Windows Phone Marketplace’s final large benchmark was 40,000 apps, a number Microsoft reached reduction than a month ago, followed by 45,000 on Dec 12. Both of those counts, which were logged by All About Windows Phone, set Microsoft to strike the sorcery 50,000 number by the initial week in January, a benchmark today’s sum bests by a week.
In further to the total, the new numbers uncover that the volume of apps and games combined to the Windows Live Marketplace any day is increasing. At the 50,000 mark, Microsoft’s edition 265 new games and apps any day, up from the 165 a day sum from mid-November.
As referred to in prior coverage, Microsoft’s app volume comes in extremely reduce than that of the competitors, which had a multi-year conduct begin on their platforms. Apple’s App Store, for instance, tops 500,000 apps as of May, with a more new and unaccepted equate from app tracker Appshopper.com putting that sum at 526,855. 150,000 of those apps were published inside a 4 month time period. As for Google, an altogether app equate from analytics organisation Distimo pegged the volume at 380,297 applications in October.
Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe nearby the end of Oct final year, bringing it to North America in the second week of November. The height is a reboot of the company’s Windows Mobile height and ties in with a number of the program and services together with Microsoft Office and Xbox Live.