Windows Phone Market touch 70k apps

70,000 Windows Phone apps as of February 2012. The Windows Phone Marketplace launched in October 2010, so some quick math indicates that it took the platform 16 months to reach this milestone. Now let’s take a look at some of the competing platforms.

Let’s start with the leader of the mobile world, Android. The Android Market hit the 80k app milestone in August, 2010, two years after it launched. It took Windows Phone 8 months less to reach 70k. As for the growth rate, the Windows Phone Marketplace has been adding 10k new apps every month. So, bottom line? The Windows Phone Marketplace is growing WAY faster than Android was in its first few years. I don’t think anyone is calling Android a dead platform

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