I feel that the amount of apps for Android is bit on the skewed side. I mean after all, icon packs and themes are also still technically considered apps as well and when I browse the Google Play Store, I tend to see LOTS of those. If there was a way to separate icon packs and other customization from these numbers, I wonder what the true amount would be?
Yawn - quality over quantity. Who cares about the total number of apps. I want decent apps. And more importantly I want to be able to find them.
As others have commented, I think this simply shows Apple is doing a better job of curating their store. It's been obvious for years now that Google pays cursory attention to the Play store, only taking action when a particular issue gets out of hand. If people are shallow enough to attribute value to raw numbers without further context then they get what they deserve.
Still far too much junk in the App Store... including shit that Apple claims to be removing. Akai Synth Station is still there... and that's one of the LEGIT apps; it should be gone because of developer stupidity.
This decline is 100% the result of the iOS deprecation of 32-bit apps. Probably 20% of the apps on my phone (mostly older games) no longer run. And the 4 apps I had in the app store that I hadn't updated since iOS 7 are similarly gone. That automatic elimination of no-longer supported apps dwarfs any other "curating" Apple may be doing.
I'm not complaining or applauding this fact. Apple did this for technical reasons so they can advance the platform, not to "clean up" the App Store. It's too bad some old (but perfectly functional) apps (e.g., Civ Revolution) got lost in the shuffle, but c'est la vie.
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As others have commented, I think this simply shows Apple is doing a better job of curating their store. It's been obvious for years now that Google pays cursory attention to the Play store, only taking action when a particular issue gets out of hand. If people are shallow enough to attribute value to raw numbers without further context then they get what they deserve.
I'm not complaining or applauding this fact. Apple did this for technical reasons so they can advance the platform, not to "clean up" the App Store. It's too bad some old (but perfectly functional) apps (e.g., Civ Revolution) got lost in the shuffle, but c'est la vie.