Comments on: Android Market’s first 24 hours: It’s like deja vu all over again (but with fewer apps)

By: Android Marketplace v.s. Apple App Store « A Singapore Entrepreneur’s Insights…

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:06:42 +0000

[...] place to download applications for the Google Android mobile platform) launched last week, things looked a bit sparse: There were only 62 applications available. It looked especially weak compared to Apple’s App Store, which launched with more than 600 apps [...]

By: Android Marketplace: Number of apps nearly triple in four days » VentureBeat

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:07:19 +0000

[...] (the place to download applications for the Google Android platform) launched last week, things looked a bit sparse with only 62 applications available. That was especially true when you compared it to Apple’s App Store, which launched with over [...]

By: October 24, 2008 | next media update

October 24, 2008 | next media update — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:29:18 +0000

[...] Android Market’s First 24 Hours: It’s Like Déjà Vu All Over Again VENTURE BEAT It’s hard to take any data collection in the 24-hour period following a product’s launch very seriously. But the mobile analytics and advertising firm Medialets compares its first data from Google’s Android Market with the first 24-hours of the iPhone App Store. Probably not surprisingly, the results are pretty similar. People like games, shopping, music and weather, according to the data. Perhaps not coincidentally, those often seem to be topics people talk about or do when they’re bored, or meet someone for the first time. Upon first meeting the G1, the initial phone built using Google’s Android platform by T-Mobile, users appear to be gravitating towards apps that are obvious. Source> [...]