New Mexico Business Weekly, January 12, 2011- Apple Inc. still has by far the most apps available but rivals are rapidly stocking competing stores, led by Google Inc.’s Android Market.
Research company Distimo said that Apple’s app store was just the fourth fastest growing last year in the U.S., behind Google’s Android, Research in Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry App World and Nokia Oyj’s Ovi Store.
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) growth was sixfold in 2010, hitting 130,000 apps by year’s end.
Nokia tripled the number of offerings it has to 25,000 and as did Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) whose BlackBerry grew to 18,000 apps.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) meanwhile doubled the number of apps available for the iPhone in the U.S. to about 300,000.
The number of free apps available overall rose last year while the price of paid apps fell, the report said.
“The high download volumes of free applications appear to attract developers to switch to monetization methods other than paid,” Distimo analysts Hendrik Koekkoek and Gert Jan Spriensma wrote.
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