By Athima Chansanchai
No matter what bravado Apple puts up, the company must be breaking a little sweat, looking in its rearview mirror at Google's Android. After all, Android not only overtook the iPhone platform in sales, but went on to dethrone Nokia's Symbian as the world's most popular smart phone platform. Android devices are coming out faster than can be counted. And now it looks as if there will be more Android apps than iPhone apps by 2012.
The jolly green robot's Android Market has sprouted up 127 percent since August, putting it at three times the growth of the Apple App Store (44 percent), according to the second report released by mobile security company Lookout and its App Genome Project, which has analyzed more than 500,000 Android and iOS applications since the project commenced last summer.
No matter what bravado Apple puts up, the company must be breaking a little sweat, looking in its rearview mirror at Google's Android. After all, Android not only overtook the iPhone platform in sales, but went on to dethrone Nokia's Symbian as the world's most popular smart phone platform. Android devices are coming out faster than can be counted. And now it looks as if there will be more Android apps than iPhone apps by 2012.
The jolly green robot's Android Market has sprouted up 127 percent since August, putting it at three times the growth of the Apple App Store (44 percent), according to the second report released by mobile security company Lookout and its App Genome Project, which has analyzed more than 500,000 Android and iOS applications since the project commenced last summer.
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