Android Market shows steady growth.

Original author: ReadWriteWeb
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A week has passed since the Android Market, the main place for downloading applications for the Google G1 Android mobile phone, opened its doors to the creators of software. While the noise and rumors surrounding the opening of the Android Market have not been drowned out by competitors' projects, the number of Android applications is growing steadily, a recent analysis of the situation from Medialets shows.

The number of Android applications and their growth look positive, but it is important to mention that the report from Medialets does not provide complete information. This is just part of the statistics. For example, the exact number of downloads of an application is not clear.

As of October 29, 2008, the portal offered 167 applications, and most were in two categories of tools or games. These applications received about a quarter of downloads.

So what applications are downloaded by Android users? Most popular applications are very similar to those that claim to be leaders in the iPhone store, these are entertainment and link applications that provide access to a particular web service.

Pac-Man and weather widgets lead the way among apps. Ringdroid - a program that allows you to record and edit sound, and the favorite program of iPhone users - Shazam, which determines the name of the song and the name of the artist by sound, also in the leaderboard. Yes, and a program that makes a flashlight from a phone, too.

As for the comparison of traffic between the Android Market and the Apple App Store, it’s hard to say now, but based on the first measurements, VentureBeat suggests expecting 58 million downloads in 100 days. In comparison, the Apple App Store reached 100 million downloads in 60 days.

So far, the statistics from the Android Market do not shock the market and break records, but they look quite respectable. In accordance with current trends, the number of users and the number of programs will undoubtedly go up.

We are sure that much more will happen with the market of platforms and mobile phones that support them, despite the fact that Google is now in the role of catching up on the path that Apple has opened. Let's not forget that this is not the first market Google entered with such positions. And what they do and how they do it looks very good among the achievements of competitors. Will Android Be Another Google Victory? It will show time.

Original: www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2008/11/01/01readwriteweb-android_market_shows_steady_gr.html

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