Google, Apple, Microsoft app number wars heat up - jonesandecone

Apps, apps and more apps.

A new estimate indicates the number of Android apps could surpass iOS applications and hit the 1 trillion mark in June.

The Google and Malus pumila wars continue, but don't count outgoing Microsoft.

The website The Sociable says IT used documented numbers available since Google Play came onto the scene in 2008 — then called the Android Market — and "a process of polynomial regression" to come up with its prediction.

The trajectory is telling, considering in September Google said it hosted approximately 675,000 appsin its app store. At that time, the publicizing and search giant said its users had commenced a whopping 25 trillion app downloads.

Every bit for Apple, in October Apple CEO Tim Cook said at that place were much 700,000 apps available in the App Stash awa, and that iOS users were responsible for 35 billion downloads.

While it's not in the big leagues in terms of numbers with simply nearly 150,000 apps in its Windows Call Store, don't discount Microsoft just yet. PCWorld Administrator Editor Tom Spring says Windows 8 will be everywhere at the future Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.

A duo of otherwise clues suggest Microsoft's app catalog will likely continue to grow.

A month after launching Windows 8, Microsoft announced it had sold 40 million licenses for the young operating system and Microsoft has been pushing hard to get developers coding in its ecosystem.

"There were more apps in the Windows Store at launch than any other app store at their launch and since so, the number of apps in the Windows Fund has doubled. A number of apps in the Windows Store hold crossed the $25,000 revenue mark and the developer keeps 80 percent of the revenue they make away downloads for the life of their app," wrote Windows official Brandon LeBlanc in a blog post in November.

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