Distimo's 400,000 app count includes only active applications and does not include any apps that may have been recently removed from the Market because of claims of copyright infringement or the recent Android malware scare.
While the Android Market jumped by 200,000 apps over the last eight months, Distimo's report suggests Apple's App Store is currently growing at a slower rate than its Android rival. Apple's App Store for iPhone, according to Distimo, required seven months to make the jump from 300,000 to 400,000 in June. There was also an eight-month growth period before that when the iPhone app catalog grew from 200,000 to 300,000 apps. Overall, however, iPhone apps reached 400,000 in 37 months while it took the Android Market 39 months to hit the benchmark, Distimo said.
Two-thirds free
Despite what may be the Android Market’s faster growing app store with a wider variety of free apps, Apple's iOS platform is still where the money is for developers. The App Store for iPhone and iPad, counted separately, both beat the Android Market in terms of revenue. Apps for the iPhone alone brought in about four times the revenue of the Android Market, according to Distimo's year-end report.
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