{"id":63676,"date":"2012-11-01T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63676"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:52:59","slug":"google-play-hits-700k-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/63676-google-play-hits-700k-android-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Play hits 700k Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> says that its <a title=\"Google Play\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/472468-Google-Play\">Google Play<\/a> store has reached 700,000 apps for <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> devices.<\/p>\n<p>The number echoes <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a>\u2019s last <a title=\"iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384017-iTunes\">iTunes<\/a> reporting, which saw the <a title=\"iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/464665-iOS\">iOS<\/a> app store reaching a similar figure.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has always had the edge in the number of apps in its store, but Google has quickly caught up by luring developers into its Android platform, taking advantage of the rising popularity of Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple also recently announced that it has paid $6.5 billion to developers since the <a title=\"App Store\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/475940-App-Store\">App Store<\/a> was introduced in 2008.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-10-29\/google-says-700-000-applications-available-for-android-devices\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Google partners with Warner Music Group\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/63434-google-partners-with-warner-music-group.html\">Google partners with Warner Music Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Google Nexus 4 and 10 pricing announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/63392-google-nexus-4-and-10-pricing-announced.html\">Google Nexus 4 and 10 pricing announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google cancels Android event over hurricane\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/63338-google-cancels-android-event-over-hurricane.html\"><strong>Google cancels Android event over hurricane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Android app store has surpassed 700,000 available apps, and continues to grow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":49219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4036,10100,16560,13079,7979],"class_list":["post-63676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-google-play","tag-ios-vs-android","tag-itunes-app-store","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63704,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63676\/revisions\/63704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}