App Store Reaches 10,000 iPad Apps

Apple’s iTunes App Store now has more than 10,000 iPad specific apps, with 1,000 new apps for Apple’s latest device being added to the App Store every week.

An interesting report from Mac Stories has a comprehensive listing of the number of iPad apps in the App Store over the past 3 weeks.  Based on their calculations, they speculate Apple “is approving around 200 apps every day during the week, but the number dramatically drops during weekends. At this rate, the App Store should hit the 20.000 mark pretty soon, on August. About 35.000 apps should be available by the end of this year.”

Further, “6152 are paid apps and 1726 are free apps. That makes a total of 7878 non-Games applications. Except for Games, 78% are paid applications and 22% are free applications.”  The numbers indicate that iPad owners are not adverse to paying to premium content to their iPad.

The iPad has been available for a little more than 2 months and already has 10,000 apps specifically created to take advantage of its design, whereas apps created for the iPhone took nearly 5 months to reach the same 10,000 app milestone in 2008 when the App Store for the iPhone was in its infancy.  Compare the number of apps for both the iPad and iPhone to those designed for Google’s Android OS, which needed nearly 11 months to reach 10,000 apps even though it has no formal process for app approval.

Are you surprised by the relatively short period of time it has taken for 10,000 apps to be created and released specifically for the iPad?  Are you more likely to pay for an iPad app and (if you are an iPhone user) opt for free apps for your iPhone?