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 setup like Android Market, Windows Marketplace, Palm’s App Catalog already in the market and growing, I am not sure whether there is room for player like Pocketgear anymore.

The press from Pocket is after the break.

[via phandroid]

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