Information Madness

About five years back, hardly anyone knew what an App was. Apps were not such a big deal on the mobile handsets as they are today. Today, you can download all kinds of different utilities, customizations or games with just the press of a finger. A search and analytics engine for the mobile marketplace, Mobilewalla, has reported that the market is a few units away from the one million Apps mark.

As per Mobilewalla, there are 987,863 Apps as per the market count on the second of December just three days back. The one million mark is likely to be hit soon the way things are going. They are estimating that there are almost two hundred new Apps are entering the marketplace each day. The holiday season that is approaching us may see a higher number on a daily basis. This is an amazing record that cannot be ignored as a milestone.

Earlier, the initial Apps were only for fun. The Doodle Jump Game was one of the first mass market Apps to gain a popularity that was viral in nature. It paved the way for other mass successes like Angry Birds. The App usage has skyrocketed since then. The entire App system has changed drastically. You will be surprised to know that new Apps have been designed locally to improve the lives of rural villagers, disseminate news, weather and even crop data.

Percentage wise, Mobilewalla has given a breakdown ranking with Apple leading the number of Apps released. Apple’s App Store hosts 593,663 Apps. This is almost sixty per cent of the market. Android hosts 322,280 Apps. This is thirty two per cent of the market. BlackBerry and Windows have less than a hundred thousand Apps combined at almost eight per cent of the market.