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Windows Phone Marketplace passes the 40,000 app milestone

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By: , IntoMobile
Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 8:58 PM
Windows Phone Marketplace

The Windows Phone Marketplace continues to grow at a steady rate. In little over a year, the Marketplace now has over 40,000 published apps according to an estimate from All About Windows Phone. This number is not the total available to consumers, but the total number that has been submitted to the online store. An estimated 5,500 apps are no longer available to consumers because they were removed by Microsoft or the developer.

It’s estimated that 165 new apps are added each day to the Marketplace. This number should stay steady now that Mango has hit handsets and given the platform a much needed boost. The introduction of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 800 and the 710, should help increase handset sales. This, in turn, should increase developer interest in the platform and boost app submissions. This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky dream from a Windows fanboy.  Early reviews of the Lumia 800 are favorable which bodes well for Nokia, Microsoft and Windows Phone.

[Via All About Windows Phone]

 

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Kelly spent the last four years covering mobile technology at places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent several years as a Ph.D student in Microbiology. When she's not writing, she can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western Maine with her husband and tribe of children. You can follow her on Twitter @kellyhodgkins.

  • Anonymous

    I had experienced my WP7 with Windows Phone Marketplace which has full of junkie and unofficial apps. but there are very few official apps for example Bank of america, others.  I glad that ditched WP7 for android phone ( SGSII ) .

  • http://twitter.com/mactoc1 mactoc

    What do you do when no one wants your phones? Give them away for free!

    wp7 has failed, Sue Barnes and Noble…..

  • Stb7

    Lol

  • Anonymous

    Kinda makes you wonder who comes up with all that stuff??
    web-tools.at.tc

  • http://silicoxvalley.com person287

    It’s good to see Windows Phone doing well. I wouldn’t give up my iPhone for it, but Microsoft seems to be doing stuff right with it, and maybe it’ll give Apple a bit of competition (I hate Android by the way, I just think it’s more about the idealism of being Open Source than actually creating something smooth, which WP7 and iOS seem to be).

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S4P776DTZMICAZERO77WXIPGWA Jace

    @AM3RIG:disqus Try it now.. my co-worker’s mother makes $80 an hour on the internet. She has been fired for 7 months but last month her income was $7897 just working on the internet for a few hours. Read about it on this web site >>> MakeCash2,com

  • http://tinyurl.com/occupy-wall-st-plan-B Joan Huck

    That is quite a bit of apps. 

  • http://tinyurl.com/occupy-wall-st-plan-B Joan Huck

    It really makes you wonder.

  • http://tinyurl.com/occupy-wall-st-plan-B Joan Huck

    That is true.