Distimo: Windows Phone 7 the fastest growing mobile app store

April 27, 2011 | By Surur

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Regular readers will not be surprised to know that the Windows Phone 7 marketplace is growing fast, and the latest numbers by Distomo, who monitors the category, confirms that the Windows Phone 7 marketplace is the fastest growing application store, growing 38% in March 2011. The growth was just exceeded by the brand new mac store for Apple computers.

Of course Marketplace has hit 15,000 apps recently meaning the growth rate has been maintained in April. Distimo expects Marketplace to overtake the Ovi store soon, which is growing at a much slower pace.

Blackberry Appworld has however been able to maintain its lead, but with more developers interested in developing for Windows Phone 7 than RIM who knows how long this will be.

On the top end growth has slowed significantly in the iPhone App store, with the Android Market expected to overtake it soon.

Perennial loser webOS saw its app store only grow by 9% from its already small base, a situation which is unlikely to change any time soon, with only 12% of developers very interested in developing for the platform and according to Nielsen only 1% of buyers interested in the devices.

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ojojoj

its pure, and i mean PURE bullshit that android counts wallpapers, themes, and widgets as apps. such a stupid way to inflate their numbers. i guarantee there are like 50,000 wallpapers in that piece of crap
expectafight

Interesting to see that they say that there was only 11,000+ apps available as of March. It also says that there were less than 5,000 apps in January. Something's off here….

http://www.facebook.com/wixostrix Edwin Michael Rodriguez-Duplesis

You should investigate. =)

Julien

Will Ovi and WP market store be merged eventually?
Onceawinmoguy

Fastst growing? I'm not so sure.
Apple grew 6% …..6% of 332,214=19,932 new apps
WP7 grew 38% ……38% of 11,731=4457 new apps

The math tells us that Apple added 15,475 more apps the WP7's App store. Android added 32,982 apps.

xXx

Agree…. I'm not sure why they like to play with the numbers which are so different from actual facts. Just the IM apps alone already wins WP7 hands down. With the current lousy APIs, is no surprise that developers are not really interested in WP7 yet….

We really need Mango to be release as early as possible.
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I think its time to move beyond grade 2 maths.

guest

wtf? lol

Statistics can be used to prove competing theories. Any mathematician worth his salt knows that. "grade 2 maths", haha, tool.
Onceawinmoguy

LOL…..well, it only took 1 of the grade 2 mathS to prove the point.

Adrian

So this article shows that Apple apps are growing fastest indeed, if we consider that Android crapps are not worth considering.

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