Google Play has more apps than Apple now, but it’s still behind in one key area

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Google Play has more apps than Apple now, but it’s still behind in one key area  App analytics firm App Annie released its 2014 Retrospective report, which confirms that Google Play passed Apple's App Store in number of available apps to download in last year. Based on App Annie data charted for us by BI Intelligence, Google Play currently has over 1.4 million available apps, compared to just over 1.2 million for Apple’s App Store. It also exceeded Apple’s digital store in download volume. But Google’s marketplace falls behind in one key area: iOS still makes much more money than the Google Play store, and App Store apps brought in 70% more revenue than Google Play apps for the whole year. Piracy has something to do with that revenue disparity as well. Read »

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