Sam Oliver
Google announced on Wednesday that its Google Play store for Android has seen 25 billion downloads to date, and a total of 675,000 applications are now available.
The announcement, made on the company's official Android blog, comes a few weeks after Apple provided its own update on the success of the iOS App Store. At the iPhone 5 media event, Apple revealed that the App Store had more than 700,000 applications, with 250,000 of those written specifically for the iPad.
Apple also announced that 90 percent of the applications on the App Store are downloaded every month, and that the average user has more than 100 applications installed on their device. Google's post did not offer comparable statistics.
As for the total number of application downloads, Apple's App Store reached the 25 billion mark in early March, or nearly 7 months before Google gave its own update on Wednesday. Apple's App Store launched three months before Google Play, then known as the Android Market, in 2008.
To celebrate the milestone of 25 billion downloads, Google is offering discounts on content available on Google Play. Creations from developers including Electronic Arts, GameLoft, Rovio and more will be on sale for 25 cents, while the company will also be highlighting special prices on movies, books, albums and magazines.
While it's a relatively close battle between Apple and Google in terms of applications available and user downloads, estimates have shown that Apple's App Store dominates in terms of paid applications. One study released last year found that Apple's iOS platform took in about 90 percent of all dollars spent on applications for mobile devices.
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73 Comments
That's more than I thought. But I don't think apps in Google Play go through a rigorous application process to appear in their app store. And no numbers on how often x% are downloaded or anything.
and only a handful of those android apps are optimized for tablets nearly 2 years since the introduction of the Xoom.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Everyone knows Google's app numbers don't matter because:
1. None of the Android apps are good as the apps for iOS and. . .
2. There's no productivity apps on Android either, mostly rip-off privacy-stealing free games. And that's because. . .
3. No developers are making money with crappy, buggy, laggy and fragmented Android anyway since. . .
4. Android users are too cheap and/or stupid to pay for quality apps which helps explain why . . .
5. There's no apps for Android tablets, just buggy re-sized phone versions with poor resolution. That might be a good thing for those couple of dozen actual Android tablet users because. . .
6. Google's appstore is littered with spyware and malware, infecting users devices by the millions. Stands to reason since. . .
7. There's no security in Android unlike iOS and besides. . .
8. Google lies about the numbers.
Think that about covers it, avoiding the need to turn the article into another click-bait thread. You're welcome...
And how many malware invested apps are there?