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December 6, 2011 11:03 pm GMT
Android Market, the official, Google-sanctioned app marketplace for Android, is announcing a major milestone today: 10 billion total downloads.More important, the rate of growth is surging. Google says that it's now seeing 1 billion app installs every 30 days.To give some context to that, it took 20 months for Android to hit its first billion downloads, and another five months to reach its second billion. Asked what's driving the growth, Google didn't share any specifics, but pointed to the 550k Android devices being activated each day as the major contributor. The increase in international support and a revamped Android Market have been factors as well.Android still has a long way to go to catch up to its iOS rival in terms of total downloads Apple's App Store has roughly 20 billion cumulative downloads at this point (the most recent stat I can find is 18 billion downloads as of October 4). But the number of new downloads per month is probably more important to developers figuring out which platforms to build for, and the race is much closer there during the same event, Apple also announced it was seeing one billion monthly downloads.
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Android Market: 10 Billion Apps Served So Far, And Another 1 Billion Each Month
Android Market, the official, Google-sanctioned app marketplace for Android, is announcing a major milestone today: 10 billion total downloads.More important, the rate of growth is surging. Google says that it's now seeing 1 billion app installs every 30 days.To give some context to that, it took 20 months for Android to hit its first billion downloads, and another five months to reach its second billion. Asked what's driving the growth, Google didn't share any specifics, but pointed to the 550k Android devices being activated each day as the major contributor. The increase in international support and a revamped Android Market have been factors as well.Android still has a long way to go to catch up to its iOS rival in terms of total downloads Apple's App Store has roughly 20 billion cumulative downloads at this point (the most recent stat I can find is 18 billion downloads as of October 4). But the number of new downloads per month is probably more important to developers figuring out which platforms to build for, and the race is much closer there during the same event, Apple also announced it was seeing one billion monthly downloads.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/SMZoYPT4p_0/
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