10,000 iPhone Apps: Why We Care And You Should

[phandroid]

The Apple iPhone App Store now has 10,000 Applications available for download and we’d like to take a moment to applaude that figure as Google Android sits with only 462 applications in Android Market. The App Store launched on July 11th while Android Market launched in late October, yet some news organizations are reporting the [...]

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[Loomis2]

Why is the top 10 free apps much more enticing than the paid apps? And where is Pandora, Urban Spoon and Tap Tap Revenge for Android? Surely they can't be waiting for paid apps when they are free on iTunes.

I actually emailed Urban Spoon to see if they were coming to the Android Market and they assured me they were working on it. I wonder how much different it is programming for iPhone as compared to Android and therefore how long it would take to port something over.

And finally I wonder what the price scale will be for the Android market. Have they said? For instance, will most things be under $1 with a cap of say $10, or even $5? I haven't heard any plans for something like that and I would like to know.

 

[Deleted User]

Why is the top 10 free apps much more enticing than the paid apps? And where is Pandora, Urban Spoon and Tap Tap Revenge for Android? Surely they can't be waiting for paid apps when they are free on iTunes.

I actually emailed Urban Spoon to see if they were coming to the Android Market and they assured me they were working on it. I wonder how much different it is programming for iPhone as compared to Android and therefore how long it would take to port something over.

And finally I wonder what the price scale will be for the Android market. Have they said? For instance, will most things be under $1 with a cap of say $10, or even $5? I haven't heard any plans for something like that and I would like to know.

I want Tap Tap revenge, but only cause there is a NIN version out now. I think we need multi touch support first. I want to go to bed, wake up with a "New Version available" message on my phone that fixes and upgrades the entire phone. But...it wont happen. Im gonna go cry in a corner now.