Android App Store

Android App Store is an application store that is only available for phones based on Google Android OS, which employs promoting Open Handset Alliance, a division of Google. Market includes all the applications written for Android, from office applications and finishing with sets of wallpaper for customers of social networking and gaming. All this variety is sorted by the relevant sections and provided with commentaries. According to the results of the year 2009 Android App Store includes about 20,000 different applications, both useful and not so, and the majority, namely 70%, were free for the user.

Access to Android App Store is carried out only by an appropriate client for devices running on the Android OS. Initially, most countries were available only to free applications, since at that time Google developed and tested the ways to pay for a wider range of countries.

App store itself is a response to the successful Apple App Store, which is enjoyed with great pleasure by the owners of the iPhone, iPod and iPad. The owners of devices met the store of applications with enthusiasm due to the ease of search and install applications, and client-based application Android Market has become an integral part of any Google phone.

Android operating system is the fastest growing platform in the history of mobile platforms. Confirmation of the fact is that the Android Market revenues in 2010 rose to a record 861.5%.

And despite the fact that back in 2009 Shop for Smartphones operating system from Google almost was not available in the market, and therefore the profit of Android Market has been fixed at around 11 million dollars.

Google initially has chosen a different from Apple strategy. First Android Market was aimed specifically on developers, and it was done in order to attract attention of talented and enthusiastic and well-known developers.