“Apple has almost reached another important psychological milestone when it comes to the App Store, a tracking website claims,” MacNN reports.
“The store is said to be nearing over 100,000 active titles, scattered across a number of different categories” MacNN reports.
“During its fourth-quarter results call, Apple cited only a figure of more than 85,000 apps; the current tally is already over 91,000, but Apple may be holding back in order to make a more dramatic announcement,” MacNN reports.
Full article, with more about the iTunes App Store category breakdown, here.
MacDailyNews Take: In related news, beleaguered Palm’s “App Catalog” hopes to approach 100 apps by the end of the decade or before the company goes out of business, whichever comes first.
First, and 100,000 amazing!
Apple might be holding back to announce it the same day as Windows 7.
Just one more good thing we like to hear about our fav on line store
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@cotton999: That would be evil … and funny!
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Yeah but the sucky_app to useful_app ratio has to go down. Time will heal that problem.
just my $0.02
@Ray
hasn’t helped windows.
They may be holding the current number at 85,000 as the new “in-app” purchase capability will likely reduce the total number of apps as multiple versions of many apps will no longer be required. Just a thought.
Hopefully the next iPhone has two TB’s of disk space and 6250 screens so I can have all 100,000 Apps on my iPhone at the same time.
LOL @ MDN take…
The App Store is growing like freakin’ Kudzu. Hell, Apple is still running commercials for the iPhone talking about 75,000 apps.
From the position of a benevolent monopoly in this market, one could congratulate Android on quite a decent number of Apps in their own Android Market (more than 10,000 at this point). For anyone who cannot (or for some bizarre reason does not want to) buy an iPhone, there is quite a decent app selection in that library. It’s not quite like Windows Mobile, but on the other hand, the user doesn’t have to suffer the excruciating pain of using WinMob. In other words, quite a decent, respectable little platform.
What commercials are you seeing? I get ads where they mention 85,000.
I predict the way it is going by 2015 there will be an app for each person on earth. We will soon see external storage for the iPhone that you will have to carry in a backpack so you can do anything anywhere. But I would like to just see a listing of the 100,000 somewhere. I am totally lost at the app store can only look at the most popular lists.
That’s a *lot* of apps…
Go Apple!!!
MaWo: ‘building’.
I wonder what that number is after removing those apps which are duplications?
100,000!!!
10,000 good?
90,000 shit?
There are a lot of crap apps and it’s become near torture trying to find decent ones!
I only wish that Apple would beef up the App Store search functions and above all…
Show the ratings of apps in lists. And add more App categories.
With the ability to upgrade free apps this may slowdown the time to the 100,000 mark. That is a good thing, getting rid of some of the bloat with teaser free apps will help iTunes to get caught up with organization. Of course the competition will create a lot of BS if the app store actually shrinks, and it might. iPhone will reach 100,000 apps, however it may be next year, early next year.