据手机应用安全公司Lookout Mobile Security最近的调查数据显示，自去年8月份以来，Android应用程序数量增长了127%，Android Market的产品数据有望在2012年中期超过iPhone应用程序。苹果App Store在同一时期的应用增长率是44%。

游戏邦获悉，该调查同时追踪了Android Market和App Store中的每一款应用，但并不包含更新版本的产品，以及那些无人下载的应用。

Apple-vs-Android

苹果目前拥有34.8894万款应用，在去年8月的这一数据是24.3037万；Android Market现在共有8.7785万款产品，而去年8月时仅3.8729万。

Lookout联合创始人Kevin Mahaffey指出，谷歌Android应用产品数量的快速增长，很大程度上得益于该应用商店较为宽松的开发商政策。据游戏邦了解，该平台开发商一般会比App Store的同行发布更多应用，平均每名Android Market开发商会推出6.2款产品，但App Store的同行平均仅发布4.8款应用。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

When will Android apps outnumber iPhone apps? Mid-2012

Apple has had a long head start in mobile apps over new archrival Google.

But new data shows that the number of Android apps has grown 127 percent since August and offerings in Google’s Android Market should outnumber the total for iPhone apps by mid-2012. Apple’s App Store wares grew 44 percent in the same time.

The data comes from the App Genome Project, a research project undertaken by Lookout Mobile Security, a mobile app security company. Lookout is examining every single app on both the Android Market and the App Store; it doesn’t count updates or apps you can no longer download.

Apple has 348,894 apps available now, compared to 243,037 in August. The Android market has 87,785 apps, compared to 38,729 in August.

Part of Google’s success may lay in its developers’ prolificity. Android Market developers typically release more apps than Apple App Store developers, said Kevin Mahaffey, cofounder of Lookout, in an interview. On average, the Android Market has 6.2 apps per developer, while the App Store has 4.8.（source:venturebeat）

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