AAWP Windows Phone Marketplace Update : 126.5 million Apps Published ...
... with 113.2 million available for download.
AAWP reports. The excerpt below is abreviated. Graphic images and additional text is available at the link below.
>> 125,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace
Rafe Blandford
All About Windows Phone
October 24th 2012
allaboutwindowsphone.com
More than 125,000 apps have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace and new content is currently being added at the rate of 215 apps per day. At the time of writing, 126,530 apps have been published, of which 113,170 are available for download (live). Of these, 15,822 were added in the last three months and 5,673 were added in the last month. These apps come from just over 30,000 different publishers.
Key points
As of October 22nd, 2012:
• 126,530 apps were published to the Windows Phone Marketplace over the last 20 months
• 113,170 apps are live (publicly listed as available for download, total across 60 countries)
• 101,517 apps are live in the US Marketplace
• Windows Phone reached the 125,000 milestone faster than Android (26 months), but slower than iOS (18.5 months)
• 30,000 developers have published an app in the Marketplace
• Proportion of quality apps (rated five or more times) stable in the UK at 7.8% (8% in May), increasing in the US at 13.8% (12% in May).
The 50,000 app mark was reached on December 27th, 2011, the 60,000 mark on January 22nd, 2012, the 70,000 mark on February 23rd, the 80,000 milestone on March 26th, the 90,000 milestone on April 30th, and the 100,000 mark on May 3rd. The 125,000 mark was reached on October 14th (approximately).
There has been a slow down in the rate of apps being added to the Marketplace in the last few months, possibly a result of resources switching to the upcoming Windows Phone 8.
Based on previous announcements by Microsoft (e.g. the "official" 100,000 milestone announcement coming a short while after our own) we estimate the "official" app count to be somewhere between our figures for published (126,530) and live (113,170) apps. The differences are due to the exact classification of apps (e.g. Microsoft appears to exclude some unpublished apps, and includes some live-but-not-public apps).
In common with other application stores, the total number of published items is not the same as the number of items available to consumers. Of the 126,530 items published to the Marketplace, 11,639 are no longer available (withdrawn by Microsoft or unpublished by the developer), a further 1,716 items are in staging (awaiting an update, in beta or not live for some other reason). That means there are 113,170 apps currently available for download (live) on the Windows Phone Marketplace.
In addition, some apps are only available in select markets. This means the number of available items to a consumer, in a given market, is lower than the number of published items. The current figures for live apps (i.e. fully available for download) are: US (101,517), UK (96,265), France (92,887), Spain (91,224), Italy (90,806), Germany (91,940), Australia (92,670), Russia (75,728), Brazil (65,360) India (92,130) and China (46,094).
It's notable that both China and India have enjoyed stronger than average growth since our previous report, perhaps indicative of strong sales of low cost devices, such as the Lumia 610. ... << Skip rest ... See article at the link above. >> ... ###
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