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App Store Passes 100,000 Approved Applications

Thursday October 22, 2009 11:23 am PDT by Eric Slivka
According to AppShopper, Apple's App Store has surpassed 100,000 approved iPhone and iPod touch applications. The mark is an unofficial milestone, however, as the count of currently available applications stands at only approximately 92,000. The difference results from the removal of applications from the App Store by either Apple or the applications' developers.

Apple's most recent official announcement of App Store application count occurred in late September, when the store surpassed two billion downloads with 85,000 available apps. The 85,000-app figure was repeated at Apple's earnings conference call earlier this week.
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rdowns
Posted: 30 months ago
They just changed the voice over in their TV ads to 85,000 from 75,000 apps. And I still can't find more than a handful of useful ones.
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jmann
Posted: 30 months ago
Only if I had more money to buy apps...
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BornAgainMac
Posted: 30 months ago
In App purchase should help reduce that number.
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kdarling
Posted: 30 months ago
One day it'll pass a million applications.

But I keep wondering how many truly unique apps there can actually be on any platform. A few thousand?
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Ice Dragon
Posted: 30 months ago

They just changed the voice over in their TV ads to 85,000 from 75,000 apps. And I still can't find more than a handful of useful ones.


This sums up my viewpoint though when they changed the commercial, I was even surprised at how few there were. 100k is decent.
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Squonk
Posted: 30 months ago
They really need to overhaul the shopping experience. 100,000 applications is a lot to sift through.

I wonder how many of these 100K are even still in the store?
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stagi
Posted: 30 months ago
Wow thats crazy for the amount of time it's been up. I wonder how many of these are similar to others, or from people who just created an app to do it but won't be around in a few years. Pretty interesting to watch what happens.
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Xibalba
Posted: 30 months ago

They just changed the voice over in their TV ads to 85,000 from 75,000 apps. And I still can't find more than a handful of useful ones.


agreed.

it was neat at first to see the explosive growth of apps and the many who were getting into apple software development for the first time.

now, sorting through and finding truly worthwhile apps has become too much of a chore and not worth the time.
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nagromme
Posted: 30 months ago

They just changed the voice over in their TV ads to 85,000 from 75,000 apps. And I still can't find more than a handful of useful ones.


No one person needs tons of apps--with the obvious exception of gamers. But what having tons of apps does is a) offer choice within a given function and b) offer a lot of specific-purpose apps that meet very specific needs. Each of which is useless to most, and vital to a few.
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nickXedge
Posted: 30 months ago

They really need to overhaul the shopping experience. 100,000 applications is a lot to sift through.

I wonder how many of these 100K are even still in the store?


The article specifically states that there are approximately 92,000 currently available in the app store.
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