Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace
by daeken on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:01AM
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That's neat and all I guess, and as an avid WP7 user I'm glad to see the market continuing to grow, but I have some serious issues with the number of published apps including... unpublished apps. Of those 100k "published" apps, 10.32% are unpublished. So the number of actual published apps is closer to 90k than 100k, and that's not even considering the 1.51% of apps that are otherwise not available on the store. That's pretty deceptive to me, not that the absolute numbers really matter here.
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Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace
by freehunter on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:20AM
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They do explain it:
In common with other application stores, the total number of published items is not the same as the number of items available to consumers. Of the 100,145 items published to the Marketplace, 10,357 are no longer available (withdrawn by Microsoft or unpublished by the developer), a further 1,492 items are in staging (awaiting an update, in beta or not live for some other reason). That means there are 88,371 apps currently available for download (live) on the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Seems like every other store does that as well. It's no more deceptive than the common "units shipped" metric done by brick and mortar stores.