A company based in Silicon Valley which has been nearly five years around has done  has managed to be successful in building the second largest application store. Though it has not done any marketing, I has become popular! It is used in mobile phones and is suitable for all mob phones in the world. And currently it is supposed to be the biggest mobile app store!! Getjar which is privately held claims approx 57,000 applications in its store, hence in terms of total applications, it is ranked 2nd to Apple.
As Apple declared this week that it has now more than 100,000 applications in its store.

Google’s Android Market, has more than 10,000 applications, market being launched earlier this year whereas it is found that in Motion’s BlackBerry App World, there are more than 2,000 applications available now.  Soon as Getjar’s virtual store went live, approx 650 million applications were downloaded in early 2005. And ever since this rate has been growing. In October, 55 million applications were downloaded by users. This  is a 267 percent increase in oct itself compared to 15 million mobile applications downloaded a year ago. And according to a survey by the company it is stated  that it has more than 300,000 registered developers uploading applications to its site. Apple’s most popular iTunes App Store which is heavily marketed, is nearly twice the size of Getjar. Since the store was launched in July 2008, in  September they had more than 2 billion app downloads. And according to the executives at Apple, its  said that the company had 125,000 developers. And compared to the Android Market, its found that an estimate of  40 million downloads were found as soon as  it went live earlier this year.

GetJar got its start for mobile developers as a beta testing Web site and not as an application store. Ilja Laurs, the founder and CEO of Getjar had started a site. This site allows the  developers to test their applications on different handsets. And thereafter was the launch of the GetJar application store in early 2005. Initially this
site gained its popularity among many hard-core mobile application users. And later people from all over the world downloaded different applications using Getjar. One attractive feature of Getjar is that the mobile applications are applicable in almost all phones and this due to the fact that the type of phone, a wireless subscriber is using the GetJar is able to detect it when they are connected to the GetJar mobile Web site.
Detection of the type of phone using a wireless subscriber’s phone number used from the regular Web site is also possible. And thus GetJar is able to direct the app shoppers to the applications which will work on their mobile phones. Another exciting feature of Getjar is that though a particular application hasn’t been developed for their particular mobile phone, it provides the users with an app – like experience and this is possible only with phones having basic features.

Getjar also has some negatives such as Getjar cannot provide the U.S customers applications to phones running on Verizon Wireless’s network. It also does not support iPhone users because this platform is closed. But Getjar can be used by the iPhone users to discover new applications and can be redirected to the Apple App Store users from where they can download the applications required.

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