News · 6 Sep 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
courtesy of J.Angel
Still wondering why I don’t bother posting about the total number of applications every time the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace reaches a certain milestone ? Well here’s a fairly good reason. Justin Angel actually took the time to download every application currently published on the Windows Phone Marketplace and came up with some really interesting statistics numbers. The best one is the following: 18 549. That’s the number of unique applications currently available for purchase/download (at the time he did his research) . This essentially means that out of 24 505 apps he downloaded, 6881 apps were clones.
Clone apps include can Books, RSS readers, multiple version of the same app (trial/free/premium/full/whatever) etc. This “issue” isn’t Windows Phone specific at all and is also present in the iOS marketplace where 14% of its application catalog is made of “ebooks” and also the Android Market which is filled with copy/cats and other intellectual property infringing content (blatant rip offs of other apps etc..). Anyway there’s more interesting stuff to learn about the current state of the Marketplace here. It’s the quality that counts…
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Use this as the final check before ordering a phone, changing network or trusting a headline monthly price.
