“Eight months after it opened with 500 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple’s App Store is set to hit 30,000 apps some time Thursday, according to the count maintained by 148Apps, which updates its list automatically,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune.
“That’s up from 28,000 nine days ago and considerably higher than the official figure of 25,000 that Apple has been using,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
In the full article, Elmer-DeWitt asserts that the rate of apps is “slowing,” but he does so prematurely, without a full month of data, as a reader (and P.E.D. himself in an addendum to his article) points out.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Fortune should obviously change their piss-poor headline, “iPhone App Store: 30,000 apps, but slowing,” as it lacks conclusive proof and gives what could well be exactly the wrong impression.
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