Alex pointed out to us earlier this week that App World now has 45,000+ items available. That is a nice ramp up though I am sure they would want to hit 50,000+ for DevCon but that is probably not going to happen. The break down between the three categories for Apps, Themes, & Games works like this:
Something tells me the Android Player for the PlayBook is going to change those numbers drastically. On the other hand I don’t like reading too much into the numbers. Like the many other app stores, App World suffers from spam apps that really don’t belong together with apps or are duplicates of the same app. For example, 12,223 of items in the “Apps” category are in the Reference & eBooks section which translates into 10,659 eBooks in an App Store. In other words there are more than twice as many eBooks than games… I saw one eBook dev split up a book into three parts just to make it three apps…
Either way congrats to the App World team on hitting some more tonnage. Now we just need to boil down those apps to actually useful apps and forget the numbers…
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