The Play Store has definitely outstripped the Apple Store in the number of apps.

Apple and Google have often waged wars over their operating systems as well as their app stores. App Store and Google Play Store. Who offers the most titles? Who generates the most revenue and the most downloads, and above all, who offers the best. If at the end of 2014 Google barely surpassed Apple in terms of the number of applications offered, now this trend is growing and confirmed.

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During Apple’s most recent Developer Conference, Tim Cook, the company’s CEO, topped off some key Apple App Store numbers, including bragging that the store has accomplished the least to date. 100 billion downloadswithout specifying how many apps are available.

Fortunately, information is readily available, so we learn what the platform currently has. More than 1.5 million apps. Of these 1,507,749 titles, 1,010,928 are for iPhone, 481,968 are exclusive to iPad, and 544,716 are for both devices. There are also 23,423 apps for Macs. In total, more than 2 million applications have been verified since the platform’s launch, but some have since been withdrawn.

For its part, on the Google Play Store at least 1,609,064 applications about 13% of these are considered to be of poor quality and useless to the user. But this new issue confirms what App Figures figures suggested already last January, with the Google Play Store finally surpassing the Apple Store in app count. For now, the App Store is more profitable than the Play Store, but the trend should reverse by 2018, according to analysts.

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