Google Play has reached the milestone of 15 billion apps downloaded. A Google spokesperson has confirmed that the milestone was passed “a few weeks ago.”
By contrast, Apple reached 15 billion app downloads in July 2011 and the company reached 25 billion downloads in March 2012. Google is seeing about 1 billion downloads of Android apps per month, while Apple is seeing about 1.25 billion app downloads per month and currently Google Play has some 500,000 apps, while Apple has 600,000 apps in its app store.
Revenue, however, is vastly disproportional to iOS platforms. Google has paid developers $320 million compared to $4 billion from Apple.
Source: TechCrunch
