Sure it may not have passed the half-million mark like Apple’s App Store, but Windows Phone’s digital download platform has reached a nice new milestone.
A report from Allaboutwindowsphone.com claims the number of Windows Phone apps has eclipsed 50,000. Keeping in mind that Microsoft’s new mobile platform just launched last year, that’s not too bad.
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It took the iPhone about 12 months to reach the same milestone, so Windows Phone is only a couple months behind. Also, the report noted, “It took just over a year to get to 40,000 apps, but just 40 days to add the next 10,000 apps. That bodes well for Windows Phone in 2012.”
The Microsoft platform has gained a substantial amount of new attention thanks to the maturing of its partnership with Nokia. The first Windows Phone-powered Nokia device will hit the US next month on T-Mobile, at a mass market-friendly price of $50 (after mail-in rebate).
Microsoft is also touting the company line of quality over quantity, as one of the goals of Windows Phone is to change the way users interact with apps – the idea is that we should all be able to do most of what we need to with the device’s built-in software and programs, with apps as a secondary, not primary, function.
Of course, whatever the company’s strategy is, it has a long way to go until it is a truly viable competitor in a space that really needs no help in creating new and interesting technology.