Google’s Android broke 50,000 apps in April 2010. While this is only a quarter of the apps Apple has with approx 200,000, it sure makes these two platforms the leaders. When looking at the smartphone market leader RIM Blackberry who only has approx 6500 apps and then last decades leader Palm with only 2000 apps. [...]
Media Giant Plans to Crank Out Scores of iPhone Applications, Hoping 99-Cent Sales Add Up Hearst, best known as a publisher of magazines and newspapers, is jumping into the business of developing software applications, or “apps,” for use on Apple Inc.’s iPhone. Hearst is focusing its apps on what it knows best: information, mainly in [...]
The AppSlice Web site reports that just 16,700 of the more than 140,000 applications that developers have created for the iPhone and iPod touch have been certified as iPad-compatible so far.
