Microsoft details of Windows phone 7 by the numbers: 11,500 apps, 36,000 developers

By Donald Melanson posted Mar 31 2011 3:27 PM we have already seen, a fair number of Windows phone 7 stats, but Microsoft now gone and provided for a proper retrospective of the first anniversary of his debut at the MIX10 Conference last year. The outstanding figure, as usual, is the number of applications now on 11,500-a number that is quick to point out Microsoft it's not "artificially inflate" by listing wallpapers category as promotion by adding competitors applications to increase "Tonnage." Microsoft also reported, that it instead of relying on the number of the AppHub select even though the Windows phone developer tools 1.5 million times downloaded, community members as a more accurate measure of the number of developers for the platform is - they now 36,000 total. Also, it is revealed that Windows phone 7 users 12 apps every month on average download, that it adds currently 1,200 new developers of this week, and that 1,100 apps on the market are ad-supported, and generate revenue with its ad management platform. Link to the source below, press the rest of the statistics.

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