Thanks to the new wave of ‘Mango’ packing Windows Phones, Microsoft’s mobile Marketplace has reached a milestone of 40,000 available apps for gadgets including the recently released Nokia Lumia 800.
Since October 2011, little over a month ago, and just as the anticipated Mango update was starting to land on smartphones, the Marketplace has increased its content by over 6000 software and games programs submitted by developers. The is an estimated average of 165 apps added daily, reported by researchers at All About Windows Phone, who predict that the Marketplace will surpass 50,000 before February.
The Windows Phone Marketplace launched on October 12st 2010 to cater for app distribution on the original Windows Phone 7 platform, with the pre-release developers kit downloaded over 1-million times. After originally being just a mobile-based store, the online ‘over-the-air’ Marketplace was also set up to deliver content for devices which would come carrying or were eligible for update to the new ‘Mango’ version – this from personal computer or even Xbox 360 with LIVE account.
Microsoft’s criteria for apps is a strict one, with a policy in place to deny anything pornographic or featuring content of an offensive nature and it’s said that the computing giant has removed more than 5500 apps for breaking the rules. So the total number of all apps submitted is much higher than the recorded count today.
It was recently found that apps from the first manufacturer to launch a WP7.5 model mobile, Finnish co. Nokia, can be hacked for use on other Windows Phone gadgets. The Gadget Helpline’s coverage of this story can be read – Here.
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