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Apple's head start: 85,000 apps
With the launch of Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile just over the horizon, Apple is making it clear just how much catching up Microsoft will need to do. More than 85,000 apps are now available for iPhone and iPod touch from the Apple App store, and more than 2 billion individual apps have been downloaded, the company announced this morning.
Of course, Microsoft isn't starting from scratch. Third-party apps have been available for years for Microsoft's Windows Mobile. But the Redmond company has been slow to bring everything together into a centralized store, leaving the door open for Apple to charge out ahead with its own community of developers.
The irony is that third-party software developers have historically been Microsoft's big strength -- a major reason, for example, that Windows became the dominant PC operating system. On phones, however, Apple has so far beaten Microsoft at its own game. In another ironic twist, Apple apps are one of the highest-profile examples of "software plus services," the idea of client code working in conjunction with online services, which has been Microsoft's mantra for the past several years.
The first phones with Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system are scheduled to debut next week, and Microsoft has said its mobile application marketplace will come out at the same time. Windows Mobile 6.5 adds new touch-screen support and other features. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week lamented that the company hasn't been able to get the more-advanced Windows Mobile 7 to market sooner.
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