Mobilewalla: The number of smartphone apps worldwide is expected to exceed 1 million by mid-December 2011

According to foreign media reports, the latest report from application analysis company Mobilewalla said that the number of applications on the four leading smartphone application platforms will exceed 1 million next week.

According to real-time tracking and calculation by Mobilewalla, there are currently 989,476 applications on the four major smartphone platforms: Apple, Android, BlackBerry and Windows, and the smartphone market launches an average of 2,000 applications every day.

Mobilewalla used a chart to show the growth of apps in the Apple App Store over the past 12 months. The number of iOS apps increased from 338,000 to 589,148. The number of apps on the Android platform increased slightly, from 115,000 to 319,774. However, Mobilewalla does not track the number of apps on the Symbian system. If the number of apps on the Symbian system is included, the number of smartphone apps has exceeded 1 million.

Mobilewalla statistics on the number of smartphone applications and market share by platform are as follows;

Apple: 590,138 (59.95%)

Android: 320,315 (32.54%)

BlackBerry: 43,544 (4.42%)

Windows: 35,479 (3.60%)

“Apps have really achieved remarkable success, with the fastest growth in the number of users in the history of commerce,” said Anindya Datta, founder and executive chairman of Mobilewalla. “In June 2008, Apple launched the iTunes App Store, followed by Google’s Android app platform in October of that year. Now, app stores have also launched BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Phone system apps.”

In just three and a half years, the mobile app market has exploded, making millionaires (and even billionaires) out of app developers and companies like Angry Birds developer Rovio, Tapulous, and game giant EA.