Jason Ankeny had a great post yesterday about the differences between the Android Market and the iPhone App store. Just going by numbers, Google is off to a very slow start compared to Apple. They have 62 apps,  only 1/10 the number of apps that Apple had at the launch of their store. Several of these were the ones that one the Google Android competition. Hopefully, things will improve soon.

Chances are that developers were unhappy about how Google was releasing the improved versions of the Android SDK to the competition winners and not to the community at large. As a result of this slight by Google, many developers did not create applications for the Google phone. Also, many developers are probably taking a wait and see attitude.

It is no wonder. Every day there are more mobile systems and app stores to program for. Do you program for the ultra successful iPhone store where your app will be listed among 7000 others? Or do you go with the Blackberry and its new store? For a company that has been pursuing the business customer for years, do they know how to court the regular consumer and are there enough regular consumers on the Blackberry to make it worth the time and effort.

Tags: Apple, Blackberry, Google

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