How Many Mobile App Stores There In The World?

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There are tens of app stores and all of them have hundreds of thousands apps; each with its own personality and trait to make others' survival difficult. So how many mobile app stores are there in the world? Let’s figure out it.

But, before we begin to count the app stores, we need to understand that today’s major operating systems are iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. So the entire story moves around these platforms.

Here we go:
Cross Platform App Stores
Dell Mobile Application Store: It is also a cross platform app store. The differentiating factor with Dell store is that it takes 40% of revenue while others do not take more than 30%.
Handmark: Handmark is the leading app distributor for Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile and other platforms. It is available worldwide. It can also be explored for desktop and mobile web apps.

Getjar: Getjar is popular for cross platform mobile apps. It was the first cross mobile application store that released Angry Birds for Android.

Handster: Handster began its journey in 2005 with providing Windows Mobile apps. Then ...
... it expanded to Symbian, BlackBerry, Android and Java.
Appitalism: It has more than a million apps for major platforms. It is also a discovery and discussion channel for new apps.

PocketGear: This app store has apps for BlackBerry, Windows, Android, Symbian and Palm.

Mobango: It is another cross platform mobile app store with 100 thousand apps. Downloads for apps have reached to 1 billion and it is supported by 40 thousand developers.

Opera Mobile Store: This App store has apps for Android, BlackBerry, Java, Symbian and Windows. It is available in more than 240 countries.

iOS Apps
iTunes is the authorized point to download iOS apps. It means you cannot download iOS apps from other place. However, Cydia is also offering iOS apps, but for jail broken Apple devices.

Google Play
Google Play Android App store is the official store for downloading Android apps. It requires Google’s credentials to access the store.

Third party app stores for Android
Amazon App Store – Android app store by Amazon is another popular place to download apps for Android devices. It also offers apps for Kindle Fire tablet that runs on highly customized Android OS.

AppsLib: AppsLib offers apps for high end Android devices with larger displays. It has more than 38 771 apps.
SlideME: If you want a good alternative for Google Play, SlideMe is the option. It was launched in April 2008 and since then it has been offering excellent Android apps.

BlackBerry App stores
BlackBerry App World: It is the official place to download apps for BlackBerry devices. RIM launched it in April 2009. However, this app store is not available worldwide, but Rim has been extending its support.

CrackBerry Store: It is an amazing online publication for Blackberry. It offers the best of the native apps for Blackberry devices.

Samsung app store
Samsung Apps Store: This app store was originally launched for Symbian and Windows, but now it also offers apps for Android devices.

Nokia app store
Nokia OVI Store: Nokia launched its own app store in May 2009. It is available in more than 230 countries worldwide.

Windows app store
Windows Phone Marketplace: It was launched in October 2009 for Windows Mobile powered devices. Now Microsoft has replaced Windows Mobile OS with Windows Phone.

So, these are the app stores. The list is further long and it keeps on increasing time and again. This information is brought to buy experts in mobile application development.