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Windows Phone could have 50,000 apps by the end of the year

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Okay, Rafe Blandford’s projections actually have the 50K mark being passed in early January, but with a bundle of new developers and the general extra buzz thanks to Nokia’s successful launch of the Lumia 800 today (well, they would say that, wouldn’t they), I think that milestone is on before the end of 2011. And who would have said that was achievable at the start of the year outside of Redmond? …the Windows Phone Marketplace has now passed the 40,000 app and games submission mark. Content is being added at the rate of 165 items per day… at the time of writing,

Windows Phone now has 25,000 apps

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You can argue the actual number, but even +/- 1% this is great progress for the Windows Phone platform, and the number is going up by roughly 100 apps per day. Other numbers? Around half of these apps are free, and the average retail price is $1.48. If Microsoft can build up momentum in terms of new apps, a pool of developers working on the phones, and attract brand names (such as American Airlines) to the platform, they might just have a shot at being relevant.