Number of applications for Android has exceeded 40 thousand

The number of applications for the mobile OS Android exceeded 40 thousand. Such data leads resource AndroLib, who leads an informal count of games and programs for the mobile operating system, developed with the participation of Google.
Writes ReadWriteWeb, only in March, has added more than 9 thousand new applications for Android, which exceeded the previous record for the maximum number of programs written in a single month. In February 2010, was written more than 5,5 thousands of programs for Android.

In December 2009, the number of programs for Android first broke the barrier of 20 thousand.Thus, the developers took less than four months in order to double this figure.

Google opened an official app store for Android called Android Market in October 2008. By the end of the month in the store, most of the applications in which is free, there were fewer than 200 programs. The figure of 10 thousand applications had been overcome in September of 2009, after which there was significant growth in the dynamics of adding new programs.

Android operating system ranks fourth in the list of most popular smartphone platforms in the U.S.. In February 2010, she was 9 percent of the U.S. market, giving BlackBerry Company RIM, Apple iPhone and smartphones based on Windows Mobile. This reduces the lag from Android goes to the third place OS Microsoft.

Note that the number of applications available to users of Apple devices in the store App Store, over 160 thousand solutions for the platform iPhone OS.