As I posted in my blog yesterday Google had a great first quarter of 2011. One of the notable points is that 3 billion applications installed. To put the 3 billion stat in perspective, Apple just passed 10 billion apps in January. But thanks to the fast growth of the sale of Android phones, Google?s app downloads are growing fast. The first billion installs took 20 months, the second billion installs took another 5 months, and the third billion took only 2 months. It?s also important to note that because of Google?s open platform, Android users can download apps from a number of marketplaces, including Google?s Android Market. Amazon just launched an Android app store a few weeks ago. With fewer restrictions placed on Android developers it not hard to see why Android apps are moving so fast. Now it will be interesting to see how long it takes them to hit the 10 billion mark Apple hit in January.
