Google Play officially has 1 billion active monthly users.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the platform's milestone at Google's Nexus event in San Francisco on Tuesday. Google Play is the company's version of Apple's App Store with content for Android devices.
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Earlier this year, reports indicated that Google had surpassed the number of apps in the iOS App Store. Google ended 2014 with 1.43 million apps compared to the App Store's 1.21 million, according to appFigures. The Amazon Appstore was in third place with 293,000 apps.
The report also states that Google Play, Amazon Appstore and iOS App Store all grew by at least 50% in 2014 from the end of the previous year. Additionally, Google Play had 388,000 developers on its team last year compared to 282,000 at Apple and 48,000 at Amazon.
It's unclear how many users Amazon Appstore and iOS App Store have right now, but as of January 2013, the iOS App Store had more than 500 million active accounts. It also broke a new record in January when the company announced customers around the world were spending nearly half a billion dollars on apps and in-app purchases.