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The App Store this past holiday weekend has passed over 10,000 available apps for the iPhone. This is a gigantic number that seems unending. The current number at the time of this post is 10,186.
It is obvious that Apple’s SDK kit and iPhone/iPod touch platform has attracted great interest from developers. These numbers has to be scaring the iPhone competitors.
RIM (Research In Motion) experienced a rocky roll out for the Storm last week that copies some stuff from the iPhone. This is RIM’s first touch screen device. On top of lacking WiFi and any good reviews, the Storm is solely lacking apps. Although RIM, taking Apple’s lead and is planning an App Store, it is clear they will have long road ahead to catch the iPhone on third party apps.
Not only are iPhone developers making money, many are finding developing apps for the iPhone far easier. Development for the Blackbery or Windows Mobile platforms requires them to create a build for each phone and each network. Many are finding Objective-C a lot easier than the Java that runs on the Blackberry.
I totally agree that there are many useless and duplicate apps in the App Store, but this should in no way allude the fact that there are thousands of fantastic and innovative applications that iPhone owners will find useful and entertaining.
The iPhone has long surpassed the Blackberry in shear numbers as RIM recently stated only about 700 apps for the Blackberry after years in the marketplace. Even as this maybe debatable, the Blackberry Storm, being a new device with a touch screen has almost no apps made exclusively for its interface.
Windows Mobile has been around for even longer and some claim 12,000 to 18,000 apps. Apple and its developers have accomplished the 10,186 iPhone apps in the App Store since its launch on July 11, 2008. These numbers are staggering.
