Posted on Friday, November 23 2012 @ 13:16 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft announced there are now 20,610 apps worldwide in the Windows Store, of which 17,958 are free (87 percent). It took 26 days to hit the 20,000 app milestone, which is not bad, but as
Hexus points out, it seems Microsoft will be unable to meet its target of 100,000 apps in 90 days.
Windows app watching website WinAppUpdate has just tweeted that there are now 20,610 apps available in the Windows Store. The 20,000 app milestone was breached on Tuesday. By my rough calculations Tuesday was day 26 and on day 1 there were about 5,000 apps available in the Store. Simply plotting a straight line indicates that Microsoft and Windows 8 app developers really will have to step up their efforts to reach that 90 day 100k goal.
WinAppUpdate said that the proportion of free apps is very high; 17,958 of the 20,610 are free apps, that’s nearly 90 per cent. However if you go to the Windows Store now you will find that there are not over 20,000 apps to choose from; that’s because this is a global app figure. When we look at individual Stores the Canadians have the most apps available at 14,000, the US has 12,675 and here in the UK we have just 11,000 apps available to download.
