{"id":7974,"date":"2010-10-25T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7974"},"modified":"2018-08-02T19:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:18:44","slug":"more-than-100k-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/more-than-100k-android-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100,000 Android Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/android-apps-S.jpg\" alt=\"android-apps-S\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/>OCT. 25, 2010 \u2022 Google&#8217;s Android developer team announced that the total number of apps available\u00a0for Android handsets and tablet computers had surpassed the 100,000 after two years. The number of Apps available via Apple&#8217;s App Store is more than 300,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: While Apple\u2019s App store still dominates in size over the number of Android apps, the latter\u2019s faster growth recently can be attributed to its open architecture and availability on a variety of carriers.\u00a0 The general price point of Android phones is considerably lower than the iPhone, even when factoring in subsidized 2-year contract prices of the iPhone.\u00a0 Combined with aggressive advertising from both carriers and hardware manufacturers, Android is clearly the main threat to Apple, even more so than the Blackberry.\u00a0 Earlier this year, Comscore indicated that while every other major smartphone manufacturer\u2019s share had declined, Android was the only one to increase.\u00a0 This month Microsoft releases its Windows 7 smartphone behind an aggressive consumer campaign, though anticipate its lure will be limited.\u00a0 However, a major difference between Android and the Apple iOS is that iOS is on platforms outside of mobile phones, notably iPod Touch and iPad.\u00a0 This substantially increases the demographic appeal and reach of iOS application.\u00a0 Thus for most developers, Android still remains very much a secondary platform.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 25, 2010 \u2022 Google&#8217;s Android developer team announced that the total number of apps available\u00a0for Android handsets and tablet computers had surpassed the 100,000 after two years. The number of Apps available via Apple&#8217;s App Store is more than 300,000. Impact: While Apple\u2019s App store still dominates in size over the number of Android [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168,40,78],"tags":[265,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16723,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/16723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}