Behind every great smartphone is a plentiful app store. Prior to Amazon’s big event on June 18, where the company is expected to launch its first smartphone, the online retailer announced that the number of apps in its Appstore almost tripled over the past year to reach an impressive 240,000 apps. The apps are available in approximately 200 countries around the world.
While these numbers may seem like small potatoes to Apple and Google, whose app stores contain more than a million apps each, Amazon points out that its Appstore is growing rapidly and doing quite well considering the competition it is up against. All of Amazon’s devices run a forked version of Android called Fire OS, so it doesn’t have access to Google’s app suite and developers have to create special versions of apps for Amazon’s OS.
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