Android Market Tops 400,000 Applications

interesting, but I would love to know the amount of applications in iOS / Android with installation base >= N (with N something like 100). I doubt such a data is available unfortunately.

However the App store is not making a good job at all trying to help users to discover "long tail" applications that are well designed and useful. It's all about stressing the few tops that everybody already know. I hope the Android market is better in this regard.

My Active installs just jumped last month.

Nov 2010 - 1k

Jan 2010 - 3k

Nov 2010 - 30k

Jan 2011 - 110k and growing by 2k per day

is everyone also encountering this strange jump?

Two of those 400k Android apps are mine, one is free with ads and restricted, and the other is paid. So duplicates of the same app have to be considered. And most of them are junk apps, poorly built, thrown together by some experimenting devs testing the water... Like me.