Another milestone reached for Android users and fans as Google’s Play Store has now served more than 15 billion downloads as of a few weeks ago, according to TechCrunch.
The store hit 10 billion downloads back in December, when Play still carried its original Android Market moniker, and Google indicated they were seeing downloads increase by a billion each month.
Android’s ecosystem is clearly expanding at a healthy clip, but that’s not to say there’s no room for improvement. Apple‘s iOS App Store, launched several months before Google Play Store, reached 15 billion downloads in July of last year, and celebrated breaking the 25 billion barrier back in March.
Microsoft, currently in the midst of “cleaning up” its Windows Phone Marketplace, has refrained from discussing overall app downloads. Obviously, the would be dwarfed by the competition at this point, but they are growing fast. The company instead opted to highlight a growing catalog and rapid international expansion.