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The App Store unofficially breaks 100,000 approved apps
It's another milestone (unofficially) met, as Apple has passed the 100,000 threshold of approved apps in the App Store, according to App Shopper. If you're unfamiliar with App Shopper, they list all of the apps that are in the store, tracking updates and price changes. As of this writing, they're listing 101,847 apps approved for sale and 93,118 actually available. We imagine Apple will make an announcement when the latter number officially hits 100,000.Just last month, Apple announced that there were upwards of 85,000 apps available for purchase with sales figures in the billions -- 2 billion apps sold in fact, though there's no word on the mix of paid vs. free.
Despite the (often significant) bumps in the road, the App Store continues to grow at an incredible pace.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Michael Khalili said 7:08PM on 10-27-2009
You can see a chart of over the past few months as the app count increased http://bit.ly/l32Zb
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Alexander Worley said 7:18PM on 10-27-2009
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talk about all things apple
even ipod/iphone apps
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jonnypjh said 7:22PM on 10-27-2009
Until the App Store hits 1,000,000 apps, I don't really see why this is such a big deal to you guys. If I made one million apps, I would be perceived worldwide as a godly figure. But 100,000 apps from a variety of developers? Could be better. Much better.
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Jordan said 7:52PM on 10-27-2009
Because Apple girls always make a big deal out of anything to do with Apple and numbers, they think the world cares.
KeynoteKen said 10:02AM on 10-28-2009
I think it's more marketing than anything else. It's when you compare the number of apps to the other mobile "app stores" that the point is made.
Aaron P. said 7:45PM on 10-27-2009
That is an incredibly poorly worded title. I actually thought for a second that Apple somehow "broke" the whole freakin' App Store.
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Phil said 11:38AM on 10-30-2009
This SEO my friend
Jordan said 7:52PM on 10-27-2009
100,000 apps, with only 1 in 10 that doesn't make a fart noise
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Jack said 8:10PM on 10-27-2009
Fart apps are less than .01% of the apps on the store. And what's really funny is that even other app stores that have far, FAR fewer titles have fart apps. How come you're not complaining about those, Jordan?
Oh right, because you're a troll, and not even a good one. Go back to Engadget where you belong.
ahoge said 8:18PM on 10-27-2009
And about 70,000 are complete trash :/
Jordan said 8:50PM on 10-27-2009
@Jack:
Your .01% statistic is about as valid as my 1 in 10 statistic. The only difference is I'm willing to admit it.
samanjj said 8:28AM on 10-28-2009
troll. prove it.
KeynoteKen said 10:02AM on 10-28-2009
10,000 fart apps? Just because I'm feeling curious this morning, I decided to search the app store for "fart". I figure, even if NON-fart apps use it in their search description, if the end number is more than, say, 11,000 or so, it'd still be a good rough idea of how close to 1 in 10 fart apps really are.
A short search later and I ended up with 417... which includes all the apps that, woefully are unrelated to farting or fart noises at all. :( In any case, an online conversion calculator (so you can check the results) yields a percentage of 0.417%. So DEFINITELY larger than .01% but just a hair short of 10% (1 in 10).
Jack said 2:17PM on 10-28-2009
Jordan - You're willing to admit your fake statistic is fake? That's awfully generous of you. Tell you what, how about you prove how many fart apps there are on the iPhone? How about you just do it without making excuses? Go for it, we'll wait.
When you fail to prove that there are 10,000 fart apps on the iPhone, we'll all have a good laugh at your expense and you can go back under your bridge.
As far as how many there actually are, you would have a hard time finding 50 of them just from searching, not that you've ever actually tried. And while 50 is still more apps than almost every other "app store", it's not exactly 10,000, is it?
recharged95 said 7:59PM on 10-28-2009
Funny, loaded up iTunes and I got 392 apps on that search keyword.
Still, that's quite a bit, granted of the 100K apps, 50% of them are likely context changes to the same base app (i.e. theme, songs, message generators, travelto apps, etc...). And that's the misleading thing when you advertise volume of apps:
For instance, MoLinker, Inc has **9 pages** of the same app with different content! It's the same base app (travelto), but one for Florida, one for Boston, etc... basically different content. IMO I would no call them separate apps. BUT to the appstore, it's counted as 1755+ apps or almost 2% of the appstore!
Then there's the copy public info and charge 9.99 apps: e.g. Dictionary apps--there's 9+ pages of those too, most duplicates of .... cough... public information! That's like 5% of the appstore...
It's truly misleading such that volume counts don't say anything about the quality or usefulness of the apps.
Not to ping Apple *hard*, as Android and Palm do the same, but Apple is heavily marketing app count as the #1 metric of how good the store is....
ifokust said 8:53PM on 10-27-2009
Disappointing that 80,000+ are crap. Huge fish bowl with a lot of stinky fish.
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Rob Tinsman said 9:27PM on 10-27-2009
It strikes me funny that there are so many anti-Apple viewers on an all-Apple blog.
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Jordan said 9:56PM on 10-27-2009
It is possible to use Apple products and not love them all and to be able to find faults in them
samanjj said 8:31AM on 10-28-2009
is it possible not to just whinge like a little spoilt brat and actually add something meaningful to the conversation. i don't know how many are really crap but i have plenty to be happy about on the app store and that's all that matters to me.
Andre said 9:36PM on 10-27-2009
So will this figure drop to 50,000 again when everyone combines the 'lite' versions with the paid versions?
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