Marketplace hits 9000 apps, already has more ‘real apps’ than Blackberry App World

March 1, 2011 | By Surur

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A little over 2 weeks ago, on the 11th February we hit 8000 apps, and today, Marketplace crosses the 9000 app milestone. The number is rapidly closing in on the 20,000 apps claimed by Blackberry app world in February 2011, and of course is devoid of the wallpapers and themes which form about 5500 or around 25% of the so-called “apps” there, and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace only has 507 “books and reference” apps versus the massive 6100 in App World, 4000 of which come from the same spam publisher in App World.

Effectively, in terms of real apps, Windows Phone 7 is already the 3rd ecosystem, in USA at least where Symbian is not a factor.

Via WPCentral.com

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Milad

more than 2 weeks to get 1000 apps means the growth is actually slowing down a little bit. thats about 70 apps per day.

I had expected the Nokia deal to have a positive effect but I guess we will find that out a bit later since maybe it takes some times for those apps to hit the marketplace if they have just recently started to develop.

anyway, 9000 is a solid number for a platform thats barely 5 months old.

bobk

Microsoft increasing free app limit from 5 to 100 should boost numbers. Sprint and Verizon offering WP7 should help also.

GP007

MS also now allows their own workers to make apps and make money off of it, so that's another boost of WP7 devs outta nowhere.

chinch

that policy has been effect from day-1 of wp7

GP007

They tend not to update the marketplace over the weekend, at least I've never seen it updated on the weekend. Thus it's 100 apps per "day", day being work days.

WP7Fan

indeed. That makes it 500 per week, and thus 1000 per two weeks, just like before.

thierry

Reference & Books as well as professional apps dramatically missing on WP7.

And what about GPS/ Turn by Turn navigation apps?

Brianna

"what about GPS/ Turn by Turn navigation apps?"
Have you try A-to-B yet?

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Of those 20K apps 4000+ are from "ONE DEVELOPER" … RIM has yet to do anything about this scam http://www.berryreview.com/2011/02/25/one-develop… why because removed over 4000+ apps would just show how bad RIM sucks when MS WP7 over takes them. Considering already have 9000+ apps and only being out 4mons if RIM did the right thing MS would overtake them in App by US summer 2011

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