20,000 Android Applications

[phandroid]

Five months ago the Android Market had 10,000 applications. Today, as reported by AndroidLib, Android Market has doubled in size since then and hit the 20k app market. Pretty astounding, but still miniscule in comparison to Apple’s iPhone App Store.But the key in this case is about momentum and NOT competition. According to IDC [...]

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[vincentp]

I'd say this is a huge indication of where Android is going. When I first got this thing, the only argument my iPhone friends had was "Oh ya? well we have 100,000 apps, and you only have 10,000". Well, now we have 20,000, 95% of their 100,000 are useless to 99% of users, and they all envy the things I can do with my phone.

Good times are a-comin.