Almost 27,000 apps now available at Apple App Store
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 10, 2009 at 12:10pm
With nearly 27,000 applications now available on the Apple App Store, the number of iPhone applications has now exceeded what it took Windows Mobile nine years to amass, according to TG Daily.
With an addressable market of at least 23 million active devices, the iPhone platform has become too big for most developers to ignore, the article adds. Also, according to the website 148Apps, Apple hit the new 25,000 App Store apps milestone on March 5 or 6.
To put that figure into perspective, Global Intelligence Alliance estimated (and Microsoft corroborated) that there were no more than 20,000 applications for the nine year old Windows Mobile platform as of February 25 of this year. You can read more here.
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