Ten Billionth download ... now that's really impressive. The Android platform is fast catching up with Apple's iOS, let's compare again in 6 months time. :)

"More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Google's Android Market.To mark the moment Google said that for the next 10 days it would cut the price of some top apps to 10p each.

The search giant announced the milestone on its blog adding that the store's apps were being downloaded at a rate of one billion a month. However, some industry analysts played down the figure saying Google should do more to address poor-quality programs.

Google said the pace at which apps were being downloaded was starting to accelerate. Its figures show Android took 22 months to reach one billion downloads but only one month to go from nine billion to 10 billion.

By contrast, Apple hit one billion downloads after nine months. Although the iPhone maker still maintains a lead, some experts believe it will be short-lived.

"Apple announced the 15 billion download mark in July so it's clear that Android's momentum in device activations is translating to application downloads and usage," said Geoff Blaber from analysts CCS Insight."

Source: BBC