During its quarterly earnings call, Apple announced that there are now more than 650,000 apps in the App Store, an increase from 600,000 in April of this year.
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer notes that 250,000 of those apps were developed specifically for the iPad.
What does this mean for the developers? “Apple paid out approximately $5.5 billion to developers. This is a huge jump from the $4 billion figure Apple reported in April. iOS 6 — with its deep Facebook integration — and the new iPhone, which is expected in September, should only bolster these numbers,” writes TechCrunch.
“To get a little perspective, Google’s most recent numbers in the Google Play department are at 600,000 apps,” explains the post. “That number is from June, and Google has been slowly closing in on Apple, so it’s possible that the two app stores are pretty neck and neck.”
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