Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch has hit a new milestone with 100,000 apps available. As reported in NY Times, Apple apps now outpace those available for competing Android phones by ten-to-one. Only about 10,000 apps are available for mobile devices running Google’s browser. Palm, once a leader in the mobile computing category, has about 300 apps available for its smart phone Pre.

NY Times points to another recent staggering Apple benchmark, when the company announced this summer that more than 2 billion apps had been downloaded at the App Store. Read more at NY Times.