The State of the Android Market
Android, with its services on phones and tablets, is a pretty good market to be in right now. In May 2011, Google announced that there had been 3 billion applications downloaded from the Android Market. Just a few months prior to that, there were approximately 30,000 free and paid applications available to Android users. This number grew to 30,000 from 16,000 in exactly three months. By the time that this book is published, I am sure that the Android Market will have over 100,000 applications, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that growth is even faster than anticipated.
Dividing the March figure of 3 billion applications downloaded by the figure of 30,000 available applications, it means that every Android application, ...
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