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40,000 iPad Apps Now Available in App Store

By | November 9, 2010 | 8 comments
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The growth of iPad apps available in the iTunes App Store keeps accelerating and has just passed the 40,000 mark earlier today.  It took Apple only 42 days to grow the iPad App Store from 30,000 to 40,000 apps.

Previously, Apple hit the 30,000 app mark on September 27 and achieved this milestone by adding 10,000 new apps in only 48 days.  Apple hit 20,000 apps back on August 10 and the company only needed 60 days to grow from 10,000 to 20,000. Apple originally broke the 10,000 iPad apps mark in June, 70 days after the launch of the iPad on April 3.

  • 10,000 iPad Apps – 70 days
  • 20,000 iPad Apps – 60 days
  • 30,000 iPad Apps – 48 days
  • 40,000 iPad Apps – 42 days

At this current pace, the iPad App Store should hit 50,000 iPad apps some time in December, 2010.

With over 40,000 iPad apps now available, the iPad is one of Apple’s fastest growing application ecosystems.  The iPad app store is currently the third largest mobile apps platform behind iPhone and Android. If you combine all iOS apps, there are over three times as many iOS apps as there are Android apps.

*Data from the PadGadget Apps Tracker and Apple App Store.

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  • huh

    178 days from April to June?? Huh 3 months…

    • http://www.padgadget.com dag

      Corrected, thanks for catching the typo

  • statsdontmeanathing

    Sheer numbers mean nothing… just like satellite/cable TV. I would love on the other hand see a signal/noise ratio. There is so little of any value at the app store Apple would be humiliated. As I see it the app store is an intellectual embarrassment.

    • Bill

      Well numbers do mean something…like the $2.4 billion + in revenue that the iPad eco-system has generated for Apple. In this case, the number of apps can be an indicator of the vibrancy of the eco-system.

  • David

    Hi Bill,

    I’ve doing some manual counting myself on iTunes as I was interested in the numbers.
    I found that there are as of today, November the 13th, 48.000 apps for the iPad.
    Since I had in mind 37.000 as of end of October, surely coming out from Apple Q4 speech or something, I started looking around on the web and found your number.

    Any explanation about this difference between the numbers shown in the appstore on iTunes and the numbers your giving ?
    the difference is quite huge and I checked my numbers twice.

    Thanks for your insights on this one
    David

    • Bill

      David,

      we use the official feed from iTunes in our apps tracker to monitor all apps that are available for sale in the app store on any given day. This gives the data we need to say the app store has reached a certain level.

      To be clear, there have been many more apps approved for the iPad than what is available for sale on a single day. Several thousand apps are either no longer available for sale or have been pulled by either the developer or Apple. So if you look at approved iPad apps, this will be a larger number than iPad apps currently in the store.

      Hope this helps.

  • David

    Hi Bill,

    thanks for the answer.
    So this would mean from my numbers and yours, there are 8000 discontinued apps listed on iTunes but in reality not available for download.

    Unluckily it seems you cannot check on iTunes how much are really downloadable, which means your apps tracker is mandatory to get the correct info, right ?

    Thanks again for the explanation.

    David

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