Android Market hits 400,000 app milestone

Android has hit another milestone, after the recent 10 billion app download mark, and this one is a big one. The Android Market now has over 400,000 applications, hitting that mark in late December of last year. Here are some key stats from App Store tracker Distimo:

Android Market hit 200K available apps in April and 300K in August
Nearly 2/3 (68%) of the available apps in the Market are free, up from 60% in April 2011
Android Market has nearly 100,000 publishers, with developers publishing roughly 4.1 applications on average

Click past the break for more analysis of the data.

In comparison to the Apple App Store:

Android Market needed 2 more months to reach the 400K milestone, while Apple hit the mark in June 2011.
Android Market needed 31 months to reach the 200K milestone, while Apple did so in only 22 months.
BUT, the Android Market needed only 4 more months to hit 300K, while Apple needed 8 months to move from 200K to 300K, with the jump from 300K-400K taking 4 months vs 7 months for the Market and App Store respectively

This data definitely supports, and even emphasizes, the meteoric rise of Android as the leader in the mobile OS market, pun intended.

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Jeremy Meiss

Jeremy is a tech strategist/project manager and application developer in the corporate world, and a coffee geek. He has spent over 15 years in the professional IT field, and has been a tech hack for a majority of his life and is a lover of all things Android and Google. He has 3 kids and a beautiful wife.

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