Stats: Android Market is No App Store Killer, But Not a Dud Either

Stats: Android Market is No App Store Killer, But Not a Dud Either
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Google reports the number of app downloads in buckets – for example, we now know that Pacman and The Weather Channel’s applications have been download between 50,000 and 250,000 times so far. In all, by looking at these buckets, Medialets surmises that there have been between 667,000 and 2,900,000 applications downloaded from Android Market. Since Android Market started allowing anyone to submit applications earlier this week, the number of apps available has more than tripled, from the 50 or so listed at launch to 167 as of today.

What are people downloading? From the looks of it, games and lifestyle apps are proving very popular:

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