Microsofts Windows Phone Marketplace has now reached 20,000 applications.



From WinRumors:

The software giant only recently announced that it had 18,000 applications, during a VIP Windows Phone Mango event earlier this week. Microsoft has approved over 1,200 apps just this week, further evidence of the Marketplace growth rate. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has taken 219 days to reach 20,000 apps since launch. Apple’s iPhone App Store took 215 days and Google’s Android store took 419 days. The speed of application growth shows that Microsoft is doing well with its app momentum.

Marketplace trackers windowsphoneapplist.com is currently tracking 19,789 apps in the U.S. Marketplace alone. WP7applist is tracking 20,185 applications worldwide and explains 1,166 of them are inactive, 48% are available for free and the average price is $1.45 per paid application

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