Dive summary:

• Android narrows the gap on Apple in the number of mobile apps.
• Apple touts more than 700,000 apps, and Android has added about 25,000 apps in the last month to close in on 700,000.
• Android application increase is coinciding with increased number of phone activations.

From the article:

“The number of apps offered for an operating system is an important factor for driving user adoption,” says Shara Tibken of CNET. “Apple had long led the rest of the market, but Google had been quickly catch up. By comparison, Microsoft said yesterday that it now has 120,000 apps for it Windows Phone OS. That’s a pretty big figure for the company but it significantly lags Android and iOS.”