Android App Submissions Hit 100,000

Way back a whole 11 months or so ago, the Android Market contained a total of 10,000 apps. Fast forward to this month and new research from Androlib suggests that 100,000 app submissions have been made to the Market since its launch. Don’t get too excited however. That doesn’t mean there are 100,00 downloadable applications quite yet, as some of these apps have been unpublished or removed, leaving a total of 83,000 active applications.

The graph from Androlib shows a healthy looking curve; the kind that will no doubt make Google deliriously happy. To compare Apples to Androids, it was almost a year ago that the App Store was reporting 85,000 apps.

Of course the real, and unanswered question is how many of these apps have at least a handful of regular users. Beyond a certain point, the growth of apps available becomes irrelevant and app developers are forced to concentrate on quality to make their ToDo list app stand apart from the 58 others. Maybe 100,000 active applications will be the tipping point where app quality becomes driving factor for developers rather than being the first to the party.