At a recent
Mobile World Congress 2010 conference,
Distimo , a Danish analytic company specializing in tracking application store statistics, made a presentation entitled
State Of Play , which analyzed the status of the six largest online app stores (Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile).
According to this presentation, the android market has the largest percentage of free apps (57%). Probably, an important role in this is played by the fact that paid applications in the android market are allowed only in 11 countries (against 77 countries in the apple app store). Android takes the second place here.

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By the number of applications, the undisputed leader is the apple app store. And this is despite the fact that the app store and the android market were opened with a difference of only 4 months: the app store on July 11, 2008, and the android market on October 22, 2008.

Apple app store also has the highest growth rate in the number of applications - 13,685 applications per month.

It is also interesting that if you look at the statistics on androlib.com, then at the moment there are already 29839 applications in the android market. Of which only 19.1% are games.