AppStore Now Offers 10,000 iPhone Applications

The application online store dedicated to the iPhone, aka AppStore, introduced by Apple only couples of months ago, just reached its first milestone with 10,000 different applications. In reality, the number of currently available applications is just below 10,000 due to discontinued apps, but this it should be reached during the week.
This information illustrates the incredible buzz and interest of developers for the iPhone platform, and if you visit some developer-dedicated networks, request for iPhone apps development are just rocketing , and several job opportunities are not filled, and salaries are rising.
Among the key features or information about the first 10,000 iPhone apps:

- Games are the leading category, accounting for one in four of total applications. This reinforces Apple's recent marketing campaign around games.
- 0.99USD is the most common price point, although one in four applications are free.
- The most expensive application currently for sale is iRa by Lextech Labs for $899.99. This is video surveillance application that integrates with a number of CCTV systems.
- The entire iPhone App Store catalog could be purchased for just over $30,000, although there's only room to fit 129 of them on your iPhone or iPod touch at any given time (148 apps in total, but that includes the default applications from Apple).

To repeat the success story of the iPod, Apple will have to be maintain such figures and attraction for the iPhone over time, and it will of course require to enlarge the number of potential owners, meaning offering the iPhone without exclusive carrier deal.