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"Although the iPhone's App Store is still king, the Android Market is growing fast. According to AndroLib, the online store has just reached the 20,000 mark, doubling in size in the last five months.\nGoogle doesn't disclose Android Market figures, but AndroLib and others track what apps are added and at what rate. Looking at the different statistics, it's clear Android development is on the rise.Given the success of the Droid, November was unsurprisingly the biggest month for both new apps in the English language Android Market, and also the biggest gain month over month.\n\nOther interesting tidbits:\n\nGames account for 15 percent of all applications in the Android Market. That's pretty similar to the App Store's own statistics, although the methodologies for categorizing application type might not necessarily be the same.\nWhen it comes to app distribution, 30 percent of apps have been downloaded fewer than 50 times. Only a very small percentage of apps have been downloaded more than 250,000 times, which might indicate that creating a \"hit\" application for the Android Market requires more nuance than for the iPhone.\n\n\n2010 is going to be a big year for Android, what with more handsets popping up \u2014 including the Nexus One \u2014 and a continued industry shift to mobile. Twenty thousand apps is a nice way to kick things off.\nWhat are your favorite Android apps?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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