Google’s official website for Android application has crossed the 400,000 application mark. This official software portal has managed to double the number of apps in last 9 months.
According to the report published on Distimo, free applications are the main reason for this growth. Android Market had crossed 200,000 applications in April 2011 and 400,000 in the first week of this new year.
“The main contributors to reach this milestone are free applications. Roughly, 2/3 of the available applications are free in Android Market. The percentage of free applications has steadily grown month over month from 60% in April 2011 to 68% free content at the end of 2011,” the company notes.
“Interesting to see is that Android Market has taken 31 months to reach the 200,000 milestone, while Apple only needed 22 months to do this for iPhone apps,” Distimo says.
As compared to the growth of Apple’s app store, Android Market is better and reaching milestones in lesser time than the time taken by Apple store.
Android Market has more than 100,000 active publisher which comes with 4.1 app on an avg.
