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App Store Surpasses 250,000 Available Apps

Monday August 30, 2010 11:34 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Fortune noted over the weekend that Apple's App Store has surpassed 250,000 active applications, a little over two years after the store's debut.


Current App Store statistics from AppShopper

According to our sister site AppShopper, there are currently 254,916 apps in the App Store. Over 300,000 applications in total have been approved over the App Store's history, but nearly 50,000 previously-approved apps are no longer available in the store.

Developers are continuing to press forward on Apple's iPad tablet device, with nearly 25,000 apps now available in either iPad-only or universal formats to provide user interfaces and features optimized for the larger screen size.
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DylanLikesPorn
Posted: 23 months ago
Half of these apps are mostly repackaged public domain book apps, flashlight or fart apps.
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jessica.
Posted: 23 months ago

Half of these apps are mostly repackaged public domain book apps, flashlight or fart apps.


Half? I'd like to see your numbers there. I bet you're 100% wrong.
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Merthyrboy
Posted: 23 months ago
Wish there's a better way to view all those apps. Either you make a fortune from being in the top 10 or nothing at all from never being found.
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kasei
Posted: 23 months ago

Wish there's a better way to view all those apps. Either you make a fortune from being in the top 10 or nothing at all from never being found.


I agree. It is so easy to get lost in the crush of apps and games being approved everyday.
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skeep5
Posted: 23 months ago
what percentage of these are actually just crap? 80?
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DylanLikesPorn
Posted: 23 months ago

Half? I'd like to see your numbers there. I bet you're 100% wrong.


You need citations?
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kdarling
Posted: 23 months ago
I'd like to see those sorted by:

1) Number of producing companies (I think someone recently did that?)

2) Uniqueness of the app. (I've always wondered about this. From a previous decade's worth of app stores, I suspect around 3,000 app types... everything else is a better or worse copy of those. But I'd love to know. Are there only a few thousand really unique app types? Far more? Far less?)

In any case, there's way too many to check out. Even if you could look at one every ten seconds, eight hours a day, seven days a week... it would take well over three months to view them all.
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fabian9
Posted: 23 months ago
just out of interest, does anybody know where AppShopper gets their numbers from? Surely apple doesn't share which apps have been approved but not yet published, etc?

almost 50000 apps approved but not published, that's a big number! are these apps just waiting for the devs to push the go live button?
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pubwvj
Posted: 23 months ago
Sadly so much of it is junk, me-too, promo stuff, books which should be in iBooks or such, etc. I've read a number of books on my iOS. Works fine, but they don't deserve to be called Apps. They're content.

Real App Count: 25,000?

Maybe.


Real Apps don't fart in public.
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intel
Posted: 23 months ago
Meh!

I use about 5 of them and about 10 games. I have tried over 200 apps. None of them brought much use. It is nice to have a selection though on what seems to be the best polished platform on the market.
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