Android Market Has Now Over 50,000 Apps
The Android Market has hit the 50,000 application milestone. AndroidLib currently lists 50,133 applications on the Android Market. Here is what AndroidLib’s Etienne had to say about their ways to gather stats:
It is rarely mentioned but Androlib covers over 10 markets and therefore also lists applications unfound in other sites. Just try to find this random russian app on the other sites
Honestly, we cannot guarantee we have everything but we think we are doing a pretty good job at it. Our number is high as some applications might have been taken out of the market. We count everything that has ever been added to the market. Upates do not count towards the overall number obviously.
On the rating front, nothing is added manually. All the ratings are the phone ratings.
Good to see that the market finally starts to bloom. We will most probably see the next spike in statistics when Android 2.2, or Froyo, is released on May 19th.
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