Google has been teasing us the the web version of the Android Market.  And guess what.  During the Android event few day back, Google launched the Android Market on the web.  If you has not been visiting market.android.com, you should try it now.  It is entirely different now.  The whole Android Market is accessible on the web now.  Login with you Google ID, and you and select the App you want to install and push [...]

Wow, woke up this morning and found the Android market on my Galaxy S is now able to see paid apps.  And I can see the estimated price for the paid apps in the local currency. Google announced last week that there will be more markets including Singapore that will get paid apps in Android market.  And it seems like Singapore has got it, what about other markets?  Can anyone verify?

A good news to many people in many countries of Android users:  Google has just announced that the paid apps will be available in a lot more countries than current.  Some 32 countries will get paid apps in Android Market in the next 2 weeks. According to Android developers blog: “Effective today, developers from 20 more countries can now sell paid apps on Android Market. Additionally, over the next 2 weeks, users in 18 additional [...]

We knew that there were around 9,000 apps added to the Android market last month and now from an unofficial count from Androlib – the number of apps in Android Market has reached 50,000. It seems like the number of apps in Android Market has started to grow exponentially recently and it is for all Android users to celebrate.  More apps means more fun and more useful for the Android devices. [via Androlib]

According to Google’s VP of engineering, Jeff Huber, “It (Nexus One) is a profitable business for us. … We are driving the business to be a profitable business from the get-go.” And he is not disclosing the number of Nexus sold: “We’re not disclosing the specific number … We are very happy with the device uptake and the kind of impact that it’s had across the industry.” At the moment, consumers can only buy Nexus One [...]

AndroLib is reporting around 9300 apps were added to the Android Market in March.  And it seems like a big jump compared to the previous month. However, we know that quantity doesn’t mean quality.  A lot of this number are made up by skins for apps, repeated apps, adult apps and others.  And with more and more these apps in the market, users of Android are getting harder and harder to find quality apps in [...]

Pocketgear has just acquired its competitor – Handango, and now it becomes the largest cross-platform mobile apps store on Internet, featuring 140,000 apps in the store.  That’s a figure comparable to Apple’s App Store. We know that the number does mean everything.  Most importantly, whether the customers will find it useful to get the apps from another store rather than getting them from the sources like Android Market and Windows Market place.  With big store [...]

The number of apps in Android Market is growing quite rapidly.  And according to mobile analytics firm Flurry in an interview with Business Week, the number may hit between 100,000 and 150,000 by the end of 2010. “A lot of developers have come onto the Android platform” because of efforts by Verizon Wireless, Motorola Inc. and Google to promote the system. Android currently has around 20,000 apps in the Android Market.  There are many Android [...]

HTC has started to upload some widgets to Android Market.  They are downable for free.  However, they are only for HTC Hero and Eris only.  That means they are only for Sense equipped devices. The four widgets are: Dice: Tap the dice first, and then simply shake your phone to “throw” the dice. Today in History: In this widget, learn about significant events and famous people who were born or who died on this day [...]

Google‘s official spokesman has clarified the numbers of free and paid apps in Android Market is around 16,000, not 20,000 as reported by AndroLib few days ago. “There are currently more than 16,000 free and paid apps in Android Market.” However, Google did not state the breakdown of the free and paid apps.  May be it is just the ways both parties used to calculate the numbers. Anyway, it doesn’t really bother me with that [...]