Apple on Thursday announced a milestone for the App Store: more than 15 billion apps have been download from the App Store.
[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]Some interesting facts shared by Apple in announcing the new milestone: the App Store now touts more than 425,000 apps apps available for download. More than 100,000 of them are native for the iPad.
All told, the App Store now supports a market of more than 200 million iOS device users worldwide. iOS devices and the App Store are now available in 90 countries worldwide.
What’s more, Apple noted that it has paid out developers over $2.5 billion to date.
That’s like… much, right?
Google announced reaching 100 million Andriod devices worldwide May 10, and on June 28 tweeted they are over 500,000 activations a day (and +4.4% w/w) . So would that put them at about 130 million? Except I need to factor in the 4.4% going downward back to May, would some math whiz like to do that?. Maybe it was only 400,000 or so back in May. 125 million-ish?
This is the part where it gets interesting. Android users don’t really download the apps. I am not saying there isn’t popular apps available, but more likely, users just don’t download them.
Reason is because android devices are available to anyone, even to the people who don’t even need it. Actually, -I don’t have accurate number- about more then half of the people I know who use android didn’t buy THE ANDROID, but rather just another phone.