75,000+ Windows Phone 8 Apps added in 2012

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The launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform late in 2012 may not have made a huge impact with consumers yet, but it's certainly been important to the WP8 developers who have published more than 75,000 new Microsoft-approved mobile apps this year.On average, Windows Phone users have downloaded 54 apps each, according to Microsoft senior director for Windows Marketplace Todd Brix.
"As a direct result of our investments, Windows Phone customers now download, buy, and use more apps than at any time since we first launched Windows Phone 7 two years ago," he said.
In addition to more than doubling the new operating system's app catalog size, Microsoft pushed out more than 300,000 app updates, and added the ability for users to share concerns about applications or games. This year also brought a number of discovery enhancements to the Windows Phone platform, Brix said, including Bing-powered search and smart lists, and new collections and recommendations for Windows Phone 8 customers.

 

[Laura Knotek]

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