I’m starting to think that there are 100,000 Apps because in the iPhone land the flow is different that on the PC or a traditional software outlet.
Mostly because of the online availability and the in-famous Billboard with the TOP100 and categories in the App Store. This mean that the App Store brings the music industry model to the iPhone, where the radios/broadcasters always has to fill the bucket of media offered every day, every week. This is because there is a continuous hunger for new media. Not very different to the trend that we see on the App Store.

When you hear about 100k apps, probably the first thought is “saturation is near” but is not the case if you think that the App Store is feeding the appetite of hungry users for new Apps, every day, every week.

Obviously that there are a lot of repeated or really-similar Apps, or even the cases where they are merely one App split across different cities or whatever other bad reason to do a many apps instead of just one. Also you have the 10,000 ebooks, etc. Here you can read more about this.

My point is that if you bring an original App you are not really competing with the 100000 apps floating around, it will be a much smaller number! which is good news for us developers.

I hope to unveil my particular App which is a game named Break The Ice, this weekend i will post some screenshots.