Apple iPhone now with over 100,000 apps

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Apple has now approved over 100,000 applications for its App Store, dwarfing apps offered by competitors Android Marketplace, Windows Mobile Marketplace, BlackBerry App World and the Nokia Ovi Store. Android Marketplace is the closest competitor in terms of number of apps with just over 10,000.

Whilst only 93,118 apps are currently available, Apple has actually approved 101,887 as of October 28 with t he number available set to top 100,000 over the next few weeks.

Of all the app now available at the Apple App Store, 19,788 are free, with the average price per paid app being $3.25 (this figure excludes free apps).

However, despite Apple’s obvious success, analyst firm Gartner claims that Google’s Android platform will be more popular than Apple’s by 2012, mainly due to its use by multiple manufacturers,

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