Although Android may still have a ways to go to take the crown away from iOS, it seems like it is just a matter of time, especially when you take into account the number of Android phones and tablets that have been unveiled in just the last couple of months at both CES and now at MWC.
Earlier today, Apple came out with information about their new subscription model for content providers and within the press release was a quick snapshot of the iOS app market with the comment “the revolutionary App Store offers more than 350,000 apps to consumers in 90 countries, with more than 60,000 native iPad apps”.
At a later point in the day, John Lagerling who is Google’s Director of Android Global Partnerships spoke at MWC 2011, saying that “there are 150,000 applications on the Android market.” Lagerling’s comments are the most current on this topic and signficantly lower then the 200,000 number that was tossed about by James Brian at the end of last year.
For now, Apple has the lead in the app store race and these are needed to meet the needs of the 160 million iOS devices that are in existence worldwide. However, the number of Android activations are growing at an astronomical rate each month as hardware vendors race to get their Android products on the market, so it should just be a matter of time before the crown changes hands
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