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Windows Store: How many apps? How many developers? What’s the ratio?

September 18, 2012 WinAppUpdate

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: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/databasejase/status/247582677241307136″] 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…

Flashlight apps – lighting their way into the Windows Store

September 17, 2012 WinAppUpdate

As I mentioned yesterday, I asked my Twitter followers what Windows Store statistics they’d like to see. He likely meant it as a joke, but follower @databasejase asked: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/databasejase/status/247440810721832960″] I figured I’d actually take a look at this one, just to see if they had shown up. Indeed they have. Early on, the Apple iPhone had no LED flash, so “flashlight” apps arrived that could light the screen one (or often more) colors, so that the screen could be…

Welcome to WinAppUpdate

September 16, 2012 WinAppUpdate

One month ago today, I began analyzing the Windows Store. It was a dark time, when we didn’t know the difference between a Metro app, modern app, and a Windows Store app. When I first calculated the number of Windows Store apps on August 16th, it was 530 applications. Times have changed – with the clarified naming, I think I finally get what those terms all mean. Well at least the last two. The first one means you’re likely to…

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