I swear – there are other people asking for information too – but the other day Jason again gave me a good question for which I had the data in hand. He asked:

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As of yesterday, Sept. 18, 2012:

• There were 1851 apps available globally.
• There were 1094 developers with apps live in the store.
• The average is 1.6 apps per developer.
• 866 of developers had one app live.
• There are 18 developers with 10 or more applications live on the store.
• Microsoft has 26 applications live in the store (titled as Microsoft Corporation or Microsoft Studios)
• 3 developers have more apps live in the store than Microsoft.