Android Market shows strong growth.
A week has passed since the Android Market, the main place to download applications for the Google G1 Android mobile phone, has opened its doors to the creators of the software. While the noise and rumors surrounding the opening of the Android Market have not been drowned out by competitors' projects, the number of Android applications is steadily growing, a recent analysis of the situation from Medialets shows.
Number of apps for Android and their growth looks positive, but it is important to mention that the report from Medialets does not provide complete information. This is just a piece of statistics. For example, it is not clear the exact number of downloads of an application.
On October 29, 2008, the portal offered 167 applications, and most were in two categories of tools or games. These applications received about a quarter of downloads.
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So what applications are downloaded by Android users? Most popular applications are very similar to those that claim to lead the iPhone store; these are entertaining and application links that give access to a particular web service.
Pac-Man and weather informers, lead among applications. Ringdroid is a program that allows you to record and edit sound, and your favorite iPhone user program is Shazam, which determines the name of the song and the name of the artist by sound, also in the leaderboard. And the program that makes a phone flashlight too.
As for the comparison of traffic between the Android Market and the Apple App Store, it is now difficult to say, but if you are based on the first dimensions, VentureBeat suggests to expect 58 million downloads in 100 days. By comparison, the Apple App Store has reached 100 million downloads in 60 days.
While statistics figures from the Android Market do not shake the market and do not beat records, but they look quite respectable. In accordance with current trends, the number of users and the number of programs will undoubtedly go up.
We are confident that there will be a lot more interesting with the market of platforms and mobile phones that support them, despite the fact that Google is now in the role of a catch-up on the way that Apple has discovered. Let's not forget that this is not the first market to which Google entered with such positions. And what they do and how they do it looks very good among the achievements of competitors. Will Android be another Google victory? Time will tell.
Original: www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2008/11/01/01readwriteweb-android_market_shows_steady_gr.html
Number of apps for Android and their growth looks positive, but it is important to mention that the report from Medialets does not provide complete information. This is just a piece of statistics. For example, it is not clear the exact number of downloads of an application.
On October 29, 2008, the portal offered 167 applications, and most were in two categories of tools or games. These applications received about a quarter of downloads.
')
So what applications are downloaded by Android users? Most popular applications are very similar to those that claim to lead the iPhone store; these are entertaining and application links that give access to a particular web service.
Pac-Man and weather informers, lead among applications. Ringdroid is a program that allows you to record and edit sound, and your favorite iPhone user program is Shazam, which determines the name of the song and the name of the artist by sound, also in the leaderboard. And the program that makes a phone flashlight too.
As for the comparison of traffic between the Android Market and the Apple App Store, it is now difficult to say, but if you are based on the first dimensions, VentureBeat suggests to expect 58 million downloads in 100 days. By comparison, the Apple App Store has reached 100 million downloads in 60 days.
While statistics figures from the Android Market do not shake the market and do not beat records, but they look quite respectable. In accordance with current trends, the number of users and the number of programs will undoubtedly go up.
We are confident that there will be a lot more interesting with the market of platforms and mobile phones that support them, despite the fact that Google is now in the role of a catch-up on the way that Apple has discovered. Let's not forget that this is not the first market to which Google entered with such positions. And what they do and how they do it looks very good among the achievements of competitors. Will Android be another Google victory? Time will tell.
Original: www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2008/11/01/01readwriteweb-android_market_shows_steady_gr.html
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/43881/
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