Real App Count:
During the last three years Apple has revolutionized the app industry with the App Store, which now has more than 500,000 apps and where customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps and continue to download more than 1 billion apps per month.
That’s ONE BILLION downloads…per month…and that’s just on the Apple IOS!
There are over 500,000 apps in the iOS App Store vs 120,000 apps in the Android Marketplace. That unofficial count of 200,000 includes ringtones, wallpapers, themes etc. Apple only counts apps.
Also, AppBrain states that over 45,000 of the 100,000 apps in the Android Marketplace are spam apps, so in reality, you are probably only talking 60,000 real apps in the Android Marketplace.
In addition, because anyone is allowed to post any rubbish to the Android Marketplace, there are innumerable "hello world' apps and buggy, poorly coded efforts clogging the Android Marketplace.
Games:
Android is still barren of Big name game titles released by all of the largest mobile game publishers:
- Gameloft – 136 games for iOS vs 12 games for Android
- Capcom Mobile – 27 games for iOS vs 4 games for Android
- EA – 74 games for iOS vs 0 for Android
- Ngmoco – 42 games for iOS vs 0 for Android
- Pangea – 24 games for iOS vs 0 for Android
- Popcap – 5 for iOS vs 0 for Android
- ID's new game Rage is only being produced for iOS
And total number of games:
iOS = 38,000 vs Android = 13,000
Malware:
Android and the Android Marketplace has suffered multiple malware outbreaks such as:
- More than 50 Android mobile banking apps in the Android Marketplace each targeted at a specific financial institution whose true purpose was phishing and identity theft.
- A wallpaper app that was downloaded 4 million times which maliciously forwarded user details to a location in China before being discovered.
- Mobile Spy and Mobile Stealth in the Android Marketplace
- SMS Message Spy Pro and SMS Message Spy Lite spyware apps also in the Marketplace
- the Geinimi botnet app that is infecting numerous Android apps on Chinese app stores and spreading around the world.
- Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a, the Russian “Movie player” app that surreptitiously sent premium SMS texts from unsuspecting users
In contrast, despite hosting over a third of a million apps and 7 billion downloads, there have been Zero pieces of malware come through the iOS App Store. A 100% safety record. Not bad, and good reassurance for a public tired of virus-riddled PCs.
