Windows Phone 7 app marketplace reaches 25,000 mark
Monday, July 4, 2011 - 11:59:37
There are now more than 25,000 apps and games available to download from the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, with two third party sources announcing that around 3,100 new programs are being added every month.
It is only eight months since the Windows Phone 7 platform was launched and many are impressed with how quickly the population of its app download service has exploded.
Microsoft has not given official app figures but information gathered by Windows Phone AppList and WP7AppTracker, seems to converge on around the 25,000 mark.
Of course compared to the 425,000 apps available for the iPhone, this may seem like a relatively small figure, but given the brief period during which Windows Phone 7 handsets have been on the market, there is no doubt that this growth is promising.
According to TechRadar, it is Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia which believes the WP7 app market growth is down to its decision to support the platform on future handsets.
Nokia's Marco Argenti said that the threefold increase in app uploads by developers since Nokia threw in its lot with Microsoft earlier in the year, must be construed as simple cause and effect.
Mr Argenti believes that programmers can see the potential for growing WP7 dominance once Nokia's first mobiles arrive later in the year and, as such, they are getting the hard work done now to reap the rewards later.
Nokia is ultimately hoping that it will be able to migrate the vast pool of developers who have created content for its outgoing Symbian platform over to WP7.
It looks like Nokia is keen to promote WP7 to its large userbase and foster the budding community of app developers, in order to make its latest mobile operating system all the more diverse.
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