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Report: Google apps gain on iPhone

Report: Google apps gain on iPhone

Google Inc.’s Android mobile phone platform is already making inroads into the mobile applications market Apple Inc. dominates via its iPhone, a research firm told Bloomberg.

Google’s phone software could offer as many as 150,000 applications by the end of 2010, San Francisco-based Flurry Inc. said. Though it only has 12,000 apps now, compared to iPhone’s more than 100,000, it’s grown at a faster rate. That pace puts it at 100,000 to 150,000 by the end of next year. Apple would still have a big lead, at an estimated 300,000 by that time.

A recent report from ABI Research forecast that mobile app downloads will reach 5 billion by 2014, almost double the 2.9 billion this year, and that Android’s market share will rise from 11 percent to 23 percent.

Apple has an 1,800-employee operation in Elk Grove. The company ships numerous products from the site.

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