More than 50,000 apps in WP Marketplace, published

Microsoft’s application store for Windows Phone has reached a milestone of 50,000 applications achieved. There was the mobile OS for fourteen months, that there is something more than iOS, that twelve months needed.

It is going to be the 50,000 published applications, of which about six thousand applications in the meantime not to be found anymore, reports All About Windows Phone. It appears from the figures that the growth of the number of apps in the Marketplace accelerates. So had the downloadwinkel a years to get to 40,000 apps, while the 50,000 th all little more than a month later, in the Marketplace appeared. Currently, there would be an average of 265 apps per day added.

Apples iOS achieved the milestone of 50,000 apps faster than Windows Phone, but Android was with for 19 months slower. Microsoft’s mobile OS goes, however, behind on the competition: for Android are now approximately 350,000 apps available while iOS half a million has already been passed.