The App Store unofficially breaks 100,000 approved apps

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....

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?

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).

100k is nice, but i agree with most in saying that having 100k just makes it tough actually get to stuff you want to use. It makes browsing the app store a painful experience in general.

troll. prove it.

I'm not sure how you see us as anti-apple. I have two iPhones, two Macs, about to be 3 with the new iMac release. But I still agree..... most (if you want to get technical I suppose you can go with >50%) of the apps on the app store are either CRAP or there are N different versions of the same thing.... how many picture taking apps are there? Do we really need that many apps that, in apple's words, "duplicate functionality"?

I'm a bit disappointed in the amount of junk I have to sift through to find anything useful. It all seems to float to the top and I'm not sure of a good way to find anything truly innovative or cool. I agree with AppleZilla's comments.

The proove is right on your face when you are at Appl store.... Where are the good appls? If they say that 80k or what ever number are true... that prooves apple store have 80k of craps and a few good ones.... How come there is no re-search on great ups? Not games!!! only appls that makes your life easy and productive. I don't use facebook or tweeter. So, that leaves around 20 appls out of 80k that I can find.

Where are you guys getting all these numbers? 70,000? 80,000? 100,000? 99%? If you guys are right about the crap, then why aren't all of you consistent? Did you actually do some counting? What proof do any of you have?

And it is Still impossible to do a proper search and maddeningly difficult to wade through the App Store. I only get apps when I see them reviewed online. I see a good app on a blog and think, 'I didn't even know that existed. It's been out for How Long!?'

Developers are missing out on my dollars because the iTunes store is designed to appeal the simplicity of a 14 year old. You can tell just by browsing what the top songs are at any time.

100k Crap and a few good ones! The bigest problem is that WE ARE ALL STUPID to support apple with this greedy behave. They aproove 99% of crap appls to make people think they are big. The problem is that we people one day will say enough of crap and move on to another platform. I thought Apple was about quality and not quantity... Ahhhhh!!!! I know! like any apple products.... only the hardware are quality while the software are crap. That's why I have my mac to look at and while I do all my work on a pc.