The fast-growing Windows Phone Marketplace has surpassed 50,000 apps, just a month after hitting 40,000.
All About Windows Phone reported the number, which is different than Microsoft's official "more than 35,000" stance. The discrepancy is due to the fact that Microsoft does not include "lite" versions of paid apps and wallpaper apps in its tally.
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50,000 apps but one of the smallest customer bases for all available phones. How much longer will the phone be around? Seems to be most of the moves M$ makes with the phone is an attempt to prop up a dead product. I'm just curious how many millions or billions will they continue to sink into the phone?
Originally posted by voyager: Let me tell you that i have this phone and is a great phone.I use now two phones:Blackberry and WP7.
No argument it isn't a great phone. The criticism i hear the phone came out a few years too late. Beta max by $ony was far better then VHS, but VHS won simply buy customer adoption, thus lack of sales... Other comments i hear from friends, "Well i'm already locked into my current phone, at least a couple years, might look at WP7 then or what's best then..."
Also look at the other article on AfterDawn here mentioning 7 million activations for i0S and Dr0id...
"Wow, almost 7 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas"
