Google Android Market is to close the gap on Apple App Store, bringing what was once a great advantage for the iPhone and iOS.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based mobile platform company from the App Store more than half a million of published applications, is gaining ground on the 600,000 Apple App Store.
Apple has 24 percent of these applications for reasons such as not to be updated to work with the new OS version will be removed, violating terms of service business, and the poor quality of the whole, according to research2guidance.
Although Google is not as rules on Apple App approval, the company also drew its fair share of applications for performance issues. Google just over 37 percent after the applications published in Android Market removed.
The cuts in the final Apple had the advantage that the total number of applications at the end of the third quarter of 2011, when only its more than 450,000 applications were active, compared to 319 000 Android.
Analysts expect the Android Market to surpass Apple’s App Store on the total number of applications by the middle of next year, but may not benefit expected by many, it will be.
Even if the forecasts are true, Apple’s mobile phone shop probably still have more assurance that the Android Market. Walled Garden approach, the company keeps viruses that come in the form of fake mobile applications, while the open model of the Google Android Market is leaving vulnerable to malware.
And applications to high-profile hits as “Angry Birds” and “Cut the Rope” will continue to come for both platforms. Developers are in the sale, to win as many copies of their software as possible, and little by an Android app or iOS exclusive, unless Google or Apple interested in monetary compensation offer.
The ability to offer more mobile applications that competitors was important, as Apple’s App Store will be offered 200 000 Apps and Android Market had only just begun, but now that both parties soon more than half a million applications have been active on one page the same 100 000 more than the other means a lot less.
Would appear now that the mobile app stores being close to equal, other features of the IOS and Android are important when users see which platform the best for them.