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Windows Phone Marketplace hits 100,000 apps

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 at 2:06 AM
Windows Phone Marketplace hits 100,000 apps

Windows Phone Marketplace has reached an important milestone, surpassing 100,000 app submissions from 23,825 different publishers. Microsoft reached this important milestone faster than Google (Android Market / Google Play), but slower than Apple (AppStore). At the moment I’m writing this, some 313 apps are added every day, with 26,493 being added in the last three months alone.

However, it’s important to add that end users don’t see all 100K apps since some of them are country-specific apps whereas some were withdrawn by Microsoft or unpublished by the developer. In total, 88,371 apps are available for download across 60 countries. Country wise, here’s what the users see: US (77,450 apps), UK (72,933), France (69,879), Spain (68,361), Italy (68,180), Germany (69,153), Australia (70,036), Russia (55,052), Brazil (47,453) India (69,771) and China (33,063).

The majority of apps are published in English (68,529) while a number of apps are localized into other languages, with German (6,231), French (5,627), Spanish (4401) and Italian (3225) being the most common.

Pretty impressive figures and now we need equally impressive Windows Phone devices to take this to a whole new level…

[Via: AllAboutWindowsPhone]

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

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