Andre Yoskowitz
29 Aug 2010 1:38
According to the site 148Apps.biz, Apple has hit 250,000 apps available in the App Store, hitting the milestone in just over 2 years.
Almost 51,000 publishers have released 252,000 apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, although only a tenth of those apps were made for the popular tablet.
Books accounted for the most amount of apps, at 17 percent, followed closely by games at 14 percent.
Entertainment was the third most popular category, at 11 percent, with education, lifestyle and travel all following at 6 percent, each.
Royal Pingdom posted that 70 percent of App Store apps are paid, whereas in the Android Market only 36 percent are paid.
The Android Market is on the verge of hitting 100,000 apps.