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Apple's App Store Hits One Million Apps in the United States
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Whether or not you think that's good... App store needs some serious improvements to search and navigation. First and foremost, a button that lets me filter out all those annoying "free" apps that have in-app purchases. Just stick a realistic pricetag on your app, devs...
AppShopper Math?
I've never been very good at math, so someone may well school me in a moment here - but ...
AppShopper lists 932,729 available iPhone apps - and 537,058 available iPad apps.
And a total of 1,007,307 total available apps
One of those million apps on my iPad says the total of available iPhone and iPad apps adds up to 1,469,787 available apps - almost 500K higher than AppShopper's total.
I've never been very good at math, so someone may well school me in a moment here - but ...
AppShopper lists 932,729 available iPhone apps - and 537,058 available iPad apps.
And a total of 1,007,307 total available apps
One of those million apps on my iPad says the total of available iPhone and iPad apps adds up to 1,469,787 available apps - almost 500K higher than AppShopper's total.
I've had to learn the hard way that humor and sarcasm are practically against the rules around here.
I WILL NOT RELAX!!!! Just kidding. It actually took 3000 apps for Apple to realize that maybe a flashlight wasn't such a bad idea. The iPhone is truly a multi-tool.
I mean Apple is awesome but sometimes it takes them for ever to add features that could be added just like that. This is just software, so it took them way too long.
They certainly are IMHO. W3C have proposed API to control physical hardware, such as camera etc. This will grow in the future.
With existing technology such as AJAX, JQuery Mobile , the look and feel of desktop and native mobile applications can be experienced in web apps. This will increase in the future.
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And the apps were just as good day one as they are now. 
At least some.
A lot aren't published anyone, but you can still download and use them.
At least some.A lot aren't published anyone, but you can still download and use them.
1,469,787 - 1,007,307 = 462,480
So there are 462,480 apps that are iOS Universal. It has little to do with math, more to do with deductive reasoning.
Any questions?
Sure And a m@r@n remains a m@r@n Bringing Heavy duty apps such as desktop grade apps in this discussion is one of the stupidest things ever Come back when you have your senses.. In the meantime go troll on Android or Microsoft forum
Well thankfully you can sell your stuff on the competing android market if you find apple's policies unacceptable. Since they have 1 trillion activations a minute you should make way more money from the very smartphone active and willing to spend android consumer.
Yes, but each person values different apps. Apple says over 90% are downloaded at least once a month.
That swipe up flashlight is actually not as easy to use as the free app ones when you have a protective case on your iphone.
If you position a flashlight app on you screen it is available one handed and can be switched off one handed.
Annoyingly the Apple notification pane goes away and you have to swipe up again to get the pane back and switch the flashlight off
Also, the flashlight stays on even when one pushes the reset/close button top right (Don't know the real name)
Annoying implementation all in all.
Back to the million apps:
Anything that has a million things to search through is a waste.
How many apps which accomplish the same does one need?
Minute nuances/differences don't justify clogging up the app store.
Retail Stores don't carry every product there is or me too products due to space reasons, so APPLE check app success and throw out what doesn't sell.
It's the way the retail jungle works.
Close out the low sellers in a separate section , like : Close out/bargain apps.
Probably puts 1/2 a million in there immediately.
Put simply, imagine every app supported as a paper cut. Death by a million paper cuts! Here is why, Apple has to spend millions in supporting the App Store infrastructure as well as valuable employee talent. With third party software, native APIs have to integrate "backwards compatibility" which stifles innovation (if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it). Finally, supporting millions of applications means iOS will bear the burden with subsequent releases. This quickly translates into bloat-ware, crippling performance, unimaginative solutions to the software, slow release cycles, and a wretched user experience.
Like folks have already mentioned, web apps are the future. Steve Jobs' original vision for the iPhone was stunningly spot on.
Like folks have already mentioned, web apps are the future. Steve Jobs' original vision for the iPhone was stunningly spot on.
Without question and doubt That is Android.
You mean Android? Full of spams and rubbish apps. Taking customization feature aside, droid phones are piece of rubbish...
You mean Android? Full of spams and rubbish apps. Taking customization feature aside, droid phones are piece of rubbish...
A lot of them are niche.
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Some are for both iPhone and iPad. You're counting those ones twice.