Windows Phone Passes 80,000 Mobile Applications

In the week before AT&T brings the Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan 2 to the American public, and with them the next concerted push by Microsoft to get Windows Phone into the smartphone space, the plucky young mobile operating system passed another statistical market, with more than 80,000 application submissions to the Windows Marketplace (reports All About Windows Phone).

"Both the 80,000 apps and 20,000 publishers milestones, together with their respective growth rates, suggest the Windows Phone Marketplace is enjoying sustained and accelerating growth. It is now comfortably the third biggest mobile app ecosystem, behind Android (450,000+) and iOS (550,000+), but some way ahead of Blackberry (70,000) and Symbian (70,000)."

As editor Rafe Blandford notes, the 82,234 submission are not all available in one place. Due to the regional nature of the Marketplace, the highest number can be found in the US store (69,123), followed by the UK, France, and Spain. He also points out around 9,500 apps have been withdrawn by the publishers.

More interesting is the increasing number of apps submitted to the store, averaging around 340 new apps every day in March. This isn’t the peak number – that occurred during the roll out of the Nokia Lumia 800 in November and December 2011. But with the Lumia 900 due to hit American developers in serious numbers in April and May, expect that number to reach up towards 500 per day.

The Marketplace is on course to break the psychological barrier of 100,000 applications in late May.

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