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App Store Reaches 10,000 Apps (Sorta)
Several sites have suggested that the App Store has reached over 10,000 iPhone and iPod Touch apps. Whether or not that’s true depends on your perspective. While over 10,000 apps have been released, there aren’t actually 10,000 apps currently in the App store.
By our count, there have been 10,030 apps released to the App Store. About 354 of them have been pulled for various reasons (trademark issues, discontinued apps). Some may have already been re-released. So, there are 9,676 apps that you can actually download right now.
Still, that’s a huge number and the 10,000 mark will be breached very soon. Here’s the breakdown of the apps per category:
- 24.0% Games
- 11.6% Entertainment
- 10.9% Utilities
- 7.8% Education
- 5.6% Productivity
- 5.4% Lifestyle
- 5.3 %Healthcare and Fitness
- 5.1% Books
- 4.6% Reference
- 4.0% Travel
- 3.4% Sports
- 3.3% Music
- 2.9% Navigation
- 2.8% Business
- 2.6% Finance
- 1.8% Social Networking
- 1.5% News
- 1.3% Photography
- 0.5% Weather
7:53 pm, November 29th, 2008
Interesting that the books category is fairly highly represented, yet not at all in terms of popular apps. Symptom of the prevalence of one-off books I suppose.
9:27 pm, November 29th, 2008
The percentages not very surprising. If anything, i thought there’d be more games. It seems like about 1/2 are games. One suggestion I have is to not count Lite apps as apps. By the way, i love appshopper.com, wish for more blog articles like this!
11:22 pm, November 29th, 2008
appsherpa.com has the number at 9,630
12:23 am, November 30th, 2008
Where are you getting your numbers from anyways? The actual number downloadable on the US iTunes store? There are a fair number of apps that are only available in certain regions’ stores.
3:28 am, November 30th, 2008
How many of those are Flashlights and Tip Calculators?
10:07 am, November 30th, 2008
The problem is that Apple doesn’t permit to create free new accounts anymore. “Payment Method: None” doesn’t work because it still wants valid credit cards. The problem has been for 1 week. More details on: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8526331
So, my question is how to try free applications if you can’t make a free account, so without using credit card ?
10:22 am, November 30th, 2008
[...] Se hele listen med iPhone programmernes grupper her fra AppShopper. [...]
6:03 pm, November 30th, 2008
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2:55 am, December 1st, 2008
[...] apps have been accepted into the store and released since the App Store’s opening, but as App Shopper points out, not all of them are still in the [...]
4:11 am, December 1st, 2008
[...] surpassed 10,000. This, of course, doesn’t include apps for jailbroken phones.However, it’s been pointed out that you take into account apps that have been booted for various reasons, there are somewhat [...]
5:46 am, December 1st, 2008
[...] 10,000 iPhone Apps has been revealed into the wild of the iPhone Apps in the App Store, though the current amount of actual iPhone Apps is about 9,676 as of yesterdays count. Unfortunetly some applications have been removed from the [...]
5:58 am, December 1st, 2008
[...] iPhone-Apps im App Store Am Sonnabend zählte der App Store laut AppShopper 9.676 Apps: Die magische Grenze von 10.000 sollte also demnächst durchschritten werden. Der Store [...]
9:02 am, December 1st, 2008
[...] something of a milestone for Apple which I didn’t even know they were close to hitting. AppShopper and 148Apps, 2 services which track the App Store, have totted up over 10,000 individual apps [...]
3:17 pm, December 1st, 2008
[...] Apples iTunes App Store has been released 10,000 applications and which is tracked by 148Apps and reported to their site. cNet noted, “In just 142 days, the iPhone OS app store has added over 10,000 apps! An amazing feat for any platform. To commemorate this we’ve put up a special page. More on this after the weekend.” [...]
5:30 am, December 2nd, 2008
Free Accounts: I just used PayPal as my payment method since I didn’t want to give my debit card number (I would surely over use it). You can get a free PayPal account then choose it as a payment method for iTunes. The trick here is that you do not need money in your PayPal account and as long as you only select free apps you will never be charged. You could do this with any payment method really. Just be sure to never buy anything other then free apps. If you would like to buy non free apps at a later date you could always add money to your PayPal account or change your payment method.
1:56 pm, December 2nd, 2008
[...] its July debut some 10,000 iPhone applications have been released to Apple’s App Store and 9887 of them are still available for [...]
7:27 pm, December 2nd, 2008
[...] apps have been accepted into the store and released since the App Store’s opening, but as App Shopper points out, not all of them are still in the [...]
5:25 am, December 12th, 2008
[...] something of a milestone for Apple which I didn’t even know they were close to hitting. AppShopper and 148Apps, 2 services which track the App Store, have totted up over 10,000 individual apps [...]
4:16 pm, December 22nd, 2008
I want see Movie . And downloads iTunes for iPod and can visit youtube and play game and have account for iPhone.
4:20 pm, December 22nd, 2008
good
9:09 am, January 15th, 2009
[...] The iTunes App Store recently achieved over 10,000 apps on offer. According to AppShopper.com, about 24% of those apps are games. That means there are lots and lots of games available for the iPhone. Like over 2000 titles. For [...]
1:50 am, January 18th, 2009
[...] categories of applications fail to get a fair amount of attention from users. With approximately 8% of the applications on the App Store falling in the Education category, not a single one of them is [...]
2:10 pm, January 31st, 2009
[...] it’s been pointed out that you take into account apps that have been booted for various reasons, there are somewhat [...]
4:16 am, February 24th, 2009
wich is the “fart apps” percentage?
3:08 pm, June 3rd, 2009
QUESTION: Do you know where I can go to get a comprehensive up-to-date listing of Apple A-P-P-S (!; at the very least NOT co-mingled with songs) for calendars and to-do’s?
AND…
QUESTION: (Which is why I asked the above question in the first place..)
Is anyone else frustrated to distraction by the way Apple’s App Store SEARCHES work? I request “calendar” IN THE APP STORE (not in the MUSIC store!!), but still it includes music. I click on the “Genre” heading to weed out the music, only to have the program snap back to “muddled” if I click on an individual entry to check out. I’ve got the most recent iTunes update (8.something). For gawd’s sake, THIS IS APPLE…cutting edge technology…top of their game (or anyone else’s!) with the iPhone and the laptop’s!!! We’ve had Apple computers (by last count, I think 8 or 9) since 1978! But apparently with each of those they DIDN’T rely on in-house programmers. I’d probably be inclined to spend more money with them…IF THEY’D JUST MAKE THE SEARCH PROGRAM LESS FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for “listening”.
6:26 am, June 10th, 2009
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