App Store tops 15,000 app mark--800 for Android Market

Both Apple and Google reported earnings last week, additionally offering up some revealing information on their respective iPhone and Android mobile efforts. Apple reported strong first quarter profits on the strength of best-ever sales for its iPod portable music device and accompanying iTunes download storefront, with Q1 profits jumping to $1.61 billion from $1.58 billion a year earlier--revenue increased to $10.17 billion year-over-year from $7.9 billion. Apple sold 22.7 million iPods during the quarter, up 3 percent from a year earlier, while consumers purchased 4.36 million iPhone 3Gs during the holiday period, down from 6.9 million phones the previous quarter but close to double the 2.3 million iPhones sold in the year-ago quarter. Apple reports the total number of applications available for download via the App Store virtual storefront now tops the 15,000 mark--iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 500 million applications in all. As for Google, the web services giant posted ... (link)