Tech: Google’s Android’s app store: Quickly catching up to Apple
- 100,000 number of apps in the Android store, a threefold increase since March
- 300,000number of apps in the iTunes store – they had a huge head start
- 200knumber of new phones that get activated daily
- 270knumber of developers working on apps
- 32countries have paid app sales source
- » Problems to solve: Many developers make their Android apps for free (and rely on in-app ads to pay the bills) not because they want to make them free, but because the payment process is so convoluted that many people don’t feel like going through it. Also, a major problem that developers have which iPhone developers don’t have to deal with at all is the fracturing of the platform – there are dozens of phones on the market with tiny but important quirks.