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Google Play Apps Market Outpacing Apple

According to a new report out this morning from appFigures, the Google Play mobile application market surpassed Apple for the number of new apps for the first time in 2014, and its developer community growth also exceeded Apple’s for the third year in a row, now distributing apps from 388,000 different developers. Much of that growth took place in the latter half of the year, the report notes, citing data released earlier this past summer for comparison’s sake. More developers joined Google in 2014 than Apple and Google combined, allowing it to top Apple’s total of 282,000 developers and Amazon’s 48,000. Overall, app development is also on the rise, with all three apps stores growing by at least 50% in 2014.

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