Android Apps true stats
By Shalini Singh

Appsfire was set up with a mission and vision of passionately building a unique platform to help users discover and enjoy mobile applications.

In the last few weeks, there have been a number of news reports that the Android Apps market would soon overtake the multi billion dollar Apple Apps market.

Countering such news reports, Appsfire has released research on how the Android Apps market is still at a disadvantage as compared to the Apples Apps market which had the first strike advantage

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Let’s recap the numbers. As of June 7, 2011, there are approximately 206,000 available Android apps in the Market. As mentioned above, there are over 425,000 iOS available apps in the App Store. So the App Store is still more than double the size of the Android Market.

The Android Market has a relatively high rate of apps that were once available for download and have since been unpublished. Out of roughly 300,000 apps that have ever been on the Market, over 95,000 (32%) are no longer available.

In contrast, out of approximately 500,000 apps that have reached the App Store, about 80,000 (16%) have been unpublished. So in Android’s briefer existence, it already accounts for roughly as many unpublished apps as the App Store.

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The report also points out that most of the Android apps are free thus providing little incentive to developers to keep going.