Brix spoke with WPCentral recently,
and one of his big pieces of evidence in favor of the Windows Phone
Store is that out of the top 25 apps on iOS and Android, there is an
"85% overlap" with Windows Phone. We would assume that the other 15% are
Google apps. We also assume that he means 21 of the top 25 apps are on
WP, which is technically 84%, but 85% does sound better.
Brix
is also bullish on the quality of the apps available for users in the
Windows Phone Store, claiming that the Windows Phone versions often have
better review scores than the same apps on iOS. Even more interesting
is that the average app rating for the entire Windows Phone Store has
gone up from 3.6 to 3.8 out of 5 in the past year.
On
the pure numbers side of things, Brix doesn't mention an app total, but
does note that there have been 175,000 new app projects started in the
App Studio in the past two months, the Store is averaging 10 million
downloads per day, and the average user has 65 apps installed on their
phones, which is up from 42 apps one year ago.
Windows
Phone is definitely on the rise, and it seems inevitable that it will
soon be considered the third major mobile platform along with Android
and iOS. The apps have always been a source of concern, but even that
may soon be a thing of the past if things continue as they have.
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