Who's Winning the App Store Race?

Distimo reports that while Apple iPhone app store has the biggest amount of apps, it's also the slowest growing-- with the Android app store to possibly surpass it within the next 5 months, should it retain its current growth. 

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However Android is still not too ideal as a platform for developers wanting payment for their work-- the Android app store carries 134342 free applications, from a total of 206143. 

The Android app store shows 16% growth for March 2011, while the Apple iPhone store show 6% growth (and the iPad-only store 12%). Fastest growing is Windows Phone 7's store, with 38% growth for March and a total number of apps now reaching 11731. 

Distimo forecasts that should growth remains as seen for March, the biggest app platforms in 5 months' time will be as such-- Android, Apple iPhone/iPad, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and Nokia. 

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