Android Market: 150K Apps, Tripled in 9 Months

We’re sitting in live at Eric Schmidt’s keynote here at Mobile World Congress, and one of his first talking points was that Android market now has 150,000 apps in the market – it was somewhere around 50,000 just 9 months ago. AppBrain released some early numbers based on their own statistic they keep back in late December, and the number looked a lot better as they’d estimated over 200,000. That may not be the case today, but 150,000 is still something to be proud of, I think. Android has gained a lot of popularity with developers starting in 2010, the year that Android skyrocketed right past most of its competition.