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"There are now 1 million apps in the Google Play store. That's up from 500,000 apps last year.\nSundar Pichai \u2014 who heads up the Android and Chrome teams for Google \u2014  made the announcement at Google's live event in San Francisco. Pichai touted the app growth as a sign of Android's strength \u2014 both on smartphones \u2014 and increasingly, he said, on tablets.\nSEE ALSO: 5 Free Android Apps for Tethering\n\nBack in June, Apple announced it had more than 900,000 apps in the App Store. Although it's possible Apple has also surpassed the 1 million app mark, Google is first to make the announcement.\n1 million apps is a huge milestone for Google \u2014 and for Android. It means that Android is not only the most popular smartphone platform worldwide, it also has the most apps.\nIn addition to 1 million apps, Pichai also announced that Google Play has seen more than 50 billion downloads \u2014 up from 20 billion a year ago \u2014 and that revenue-per-user is now two and a half times what it was 12 months ago.\nWhat are your favorite Android apps? Let us know in the comments.\nImage: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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