{"id":1114,"date":"2009-12-09T16:21:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T11:58:07","slug":"2010_the_year_of_the_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/2010_the_year_of_the_app","title":{"rendered":"2010 \u2013 The year of the App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next year, Apple will add 180,000 apps to the circa 120,000 it has already, according to to IDC predictions. In addition to Apple&#8217;s 300,000, IDC analysts also predict that Google will quadruple its Android applications to about 100,000. And this in the context of an explosion in mobile internet access. 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