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Windows Phone 7 Marketplace hits 6,000 apps

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Another week, another milestone. Yes, just like clockwork nearly every two-weeks the Marketplace adds another 1,000 apps to its belt (5K was on 12/28/10).

The good news is development doesn't seem to be slowing (20K+ developers on board now), then again, it doesn't seem to be growing more rapidly either. However, Microsoft's app approval system may be fixed to only be able to push out 1k every two weeks and not really anymore. It's all a mystery to us.

Regardless, at this rate we should hit 10,000 apps by the second week in March at which point we'll have a party or something. All we know is we're leaving WebOS in our dust and our next goal is to beat BlackBerry (16K apps). See previous 5,000 post here with each previous 1,000 documented.

Source: Marketplacebrowser

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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007 when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and wearable tech. He has reviewed laptops for over 10 years and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, Arm64 processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, performed polysomnographs in NYC, and was a motion-picture operator for 17 years.