App Store Almost Reaches 10,000 Apps

[MacRumors]

While several sites have reported that 10,000 iPhone Apps have been released into the App Store, the actual number of active iPhone apps that can be downloaded is about 9,676 as of today's count. The discrepancy comes from the fact that many apps have been removed from the App Store for various reasons (trademark infringement, discontinued apps, pulled and released).

Still, the 10,000 active app mark should also be broken in the next few days. Games continue to dominate the App Store with 24% of all apps, followed by Entertainment (11.6%) and Utilities (10.9%). Games also seem to dominate the Top 100 paid and Top 100 Free apps.

Apple originally launched the App Store on July 11th with only 500 apps. Due to its success, several competitors have plans for their own version of the App Store.



Article Link: App Store Almost Reaches 10,000 Apps

[Surely]

How many of those are flashlights?

[arn]

Originally Posted by Surely

How many of those are flashlights?

http://appshopper.com/search/?search=flashlight

29ish? (0.27%)

arn

[filmguy15]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)

there is a flashlight app? Omg that would be useful enough to post 4000 different versions!

[IndyJonez]

even though most of those are crap, that's still amazing.

[rdowns]

10,000 apps
16 flashlight apps
23 tip calculator apps
37 news apps
43 to do lists
826 "social networking" apps

Still, an impressive number for Apple.

[chris200x9]

good job apple

[Auzburner]

The more we get, the better selection and competition for us, the customers... The only problem is finding the good ones worth using and consuming our time. With such a high number, some greats are going to be brushed under the rug and never seen, but in all this is an exciting number! 10,000!

[Sirobin]

Originally Posted by arn

http://appshopper.com/search/?search=flashlight

29ish? (0.27%)

arn

Haha, that made me laugh.

[sushi]

Originally Posted by Auzburner

The more we get, the better selection and competition for us, the customers... The only problem is finding the good ones worth using and consuming our time. With such a high number, some greats are going to be brushed under the rug and never seen, but in all this is an exciting number! 10,000!

Agree.

Ten thousand apps is quite an accomplishment.

With this kind of popularity, we may see new touch hardware.

[iGuardian]

Yes, there's almost 10,000 apps, yet all the good ones seem not to be available to Canadians.

[Chaszmyr]

Good and bad... It's nice to see developers supporting the iPhone, but there are so many bad apps it can make it tough to find the good ones.

Originally Posted by sushi

With this kind of popularity, we may see new touch hardware.

We may, but I think the biggest reason that iPhone apps are so successful isn't because of the interface, but because everyone figures it's incredibly convenient to have a nice app on their phone, since they always have their phone with them anyway.

[mahonmeister]

Yeah, the app store is pretty awesome; especially with so many great apps that are free. I have yet to pay for a single one.

But I can't help thinking that things would be so much better if Apple would impose less restrictions and allow the apps to have more control over the iPhone/touch.

[zap2]

Very impressive....I recall Palm OS users using that number(sometimes it was 30,000 apps) for Palm OS, impressive how the iPhone has neared that number so soon

[mrcharlie91]

and most of apps are useless crap, of course

[Doctor Q]

I wonder if Apple expected to do this well.

[sfoalex]

Originally Posted by IndyJonez

even though most of those are crap, that's still amazing.

I was going to write that 9,975 of them are utter garbage, but perhaps it's only 9,950.

Alex Alexzander

[coolfactor]

Originally Posted by Doctor Q

I wonder if Apple expected to do this well.

They saw the problem.
They solved it.
Consumers responded.

I think that's a recipe for success.

[iParis]

JEEZ.
That's a crap load of apps.
And by crap load I mean that the majority of them are crap.
About 20% of them do the same exact thing as another app.
Then another 10% are light versions.
I think that after Apple hits 20,000 they should go out and filter all the pointless ones.

[gomatt]

knock on wood is still my fav

[.Andy]

Another vote for more quality apps. I haven't been tempted to drop any dough lately. Besides Fuzzle, Caissa Chess, and Netters the apps are leaving me wanting. I've a graveyard of apps on my HD that have only briefly seen the light of day. There's almost too many apps to sift through looking for quality. Even with recommendations from the forums or touch arcade or appshopper.

[SnowLeopard2008]

Regardless of "pointless" or not, there is a huge selection of apps from games to password makers and dictionaries. Again, read the last few lines, a bunch of companies will copy Apple, as usual. For example, Dell/Sony/HP copied Apple's AIO concept. *Sigh*

[nado]

Wouldn't it be nice if every app had a "license" field linked to it, like MacUpdate has? "Free" and "lite" versions of apps should go in shareware/demo, allowing to exclude them... It sucks to have the top 100 free littered with junk I can finish within five minutes!

[branjosef]

I wonder how many of the games are crappy useless advertisements for some upcoming movie or something, but under the guise of a game. You know alot of hotels in the United States purchase art for their rooms and lobbies from companies that have that have warehouses full of artists in places like china that sit and paint all those pictures like they are on some assembly line. I wonder if the big movie studios have a warehouse filled with geeky programmers that are continually churning out iphone games for their latest CGI blockbuster hit. Has anyone played the useless "bolt" game. 10,000 apps of which maybe 1% are worth anything. We have the "wooo button" app, the zippo lighter app, about a thousand "learn to speak another language" apps, and countless social networking apps all of which promise the experience of a lifetime. Oh I forgot to mention the numerous bible apps each offering their take on holy forgiveness and sanctuary for a convienent low price. Nothing beats getting your bible on using the worlds fastest smartphone, unless you live in England of which that statement has been banned because those speeds have been exagerated.


-sorry for the rant.

[branjosef]

Originally Posted by gomatt

knock on wood is still my fav

Thats the best app in the world. Unfortunately I downloaded the lite version of that app so all I have is "knock on plywood"