“Apple’s App Store opened early on the morning of July 10, 2008… There were more than 500 third-party apps in the store that morning,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. “One year later, there are more than 56,000, according to 148Apps.biz, and that doesn’t include the thousands of apps offered in the store’s 60 or so foreign branches.”
“Jeff Scott, who runs 148Apps (named for the maximum number of applications that could be displayed on the original iPhone) gathers his information from the store itself by running a variety of automated data grabbers,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “His latest count, as of July 10, 2009:”
• Total Active Apps (currently available for download): 56,667
• Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 4,005
• Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 60,672
• Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store: 14,935
“According to Apple, the one billionth app was downloaded at approximately 4:50 a.m. on April 23, 2009,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “Growth of the store… has been accelerating fairly steadily, with an average of 135 new app submissions every day. There were 1,630 submissions in August 2008 and 8,762 in June 2009.”
Elmer-Dewitt reports, “The most popular category in the store is games, with a total of 10,346 to choose from, closely followed by Entertainment (7,852) and Books (7,564). There are 9097 finance programs, 663 medical apps, 306 weather applications, and according to Krapps.com’s Alex Miro, at least 50 fart apps.”
More info and charts in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s iPhone has more fart apps than Palm’s Pre has apps.
