Of course, Apple's App Store is now well over 100,000 apps, but what's more important is it's a vibrant ecosystem that developers still think they can make money from. Indeed, that's what's driving that total ever higher.
However, despite the growth of Android apps - up 34 percent in the first week of November apparently - very few developers treat it as a primary business.
In fact, at present, Android would rank well behind BlackBerry when it comes to the second most important mobile app store.
Hopefully that will change in 2010, as the oft-promised 50 handsets, including Google's own Nexus One, are made available to the public. Frankly, developers can't have too many places to try and sell themselves.
In the here and now however, that figure of 20,000 is almost singularly meaningless, if only because no one is paying to download them.
[source: AndroLib]
