Windows Phone 7 Marketplace passes 4,000-app mark

By on Dec 16, 2010 at 5:26 AM
mobile December 16, 2010

According to third-party Windows Phone 7 Marketplace monitor WP7applist, Microsoft’s mobile application store is now home to over 4,000 applications. The site, which provides a Web-based interface for searching and browsing Windows Phone 7 apps, shows a current app total of 4,005. Microsoft announced on November 25th that its mobile app market was home to 3,000 apps, so the 4,000-app milestone comes 20 days later. The pace has slowed slightly compared to Microsoft’s jump from 2,000 apps to 3,000, which took just 17 days, but the rate new apps are hitting the Marketplace is still impressive. At its current pace, the number of apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace will surpass the Palm App Catalog some time in the first quarter next year. Palm’s App Catalog launched in June of 2009, and currently offers approximately 5,800 apps.

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  • Anonymous

    I wonder how much she [in the photo] got paid to stand there?

    • numetheus

      Absolutely nothing. I had my picture taken being member of staff at the college I used to work for. And another for the company I used to work for. Both times they just made me sign a paper giving permission to use my photo. Even though there was no pay, LOTS volunteered.

  • http://twitter.com/rtorcato Richard Torcato

    I’ll just take a wild guess that Microsoft has a large team in China and India pumping out apps for their marketplace.

    Quantity is what Microsoft is after. They’ve never cared about quality.

    • Wall69ace

      500 calulator apps
      500 flashlight apps
      500 random barely working apps just used ms software to convert code over.
      500 real applications for the device that are developed and maintained.
      2000 “copy cat” apps

    • http://twitter.com/ROMSPAX Roman

      Exactly they never care about it… juuuuust like Android Market and App store. It’s never about quality it’s all about quantity if you want dev’s to start making app’s for your platform, so don’t be naive.

  • Tee

    Wow… that’s like 3000 more than WebOS!

  • Paeth

    Not really surprising that no one but a tiny number of developers is wasting their time on this dead cellphone OS.

    Can’t imagine how much longer Microsoft is going to waste their time on this marketplace failure before they kill it off and move on.

  • BenR

    And this is news, why?

  • MIchael APP Man Attacker

    still no pandora, still no angry birds

  • JebediahSpringfield

    RIM better watch out. First it was Apple, then Google and now Microsoft who are about to pass it in terms of apps. Slowly but surely RIM’s demise is at hand.

  • numetheus

    So, they are about to have as many as Blackberry. I rock my work issued BB, but don’t install apps because they; for the most part, look like throwbacks from the 90′s.

  • Anonymous

    lol

  • http://relevanttech.weebly.com iamsupreme

    There’s more variations of the BB Curve than there are apps for BB. Sad.

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