Google: 450,000 Android Apps now available to 300 million devices

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If you hadn't noticed, it's [Mobile World Congress][3] this week and Google's showing off its enormous booth packed to the gills with smiling green Androids. [Andy Rubin][4] insouciantly added that the Android Marketplace has reached its latest milestone: there are now 450,000 apps available for the platform. Other pertinent stats are that over a billion apps are downloaded every month and that 850,000 Android devices are activated each day -- meaning that there's more than 300 million of them worldwide. Of course, that's not the real story here at MWC, it's that the company have brought along a bedazzling booth for guests to glue as many false jewels to their Galaxy Nexus back-plate as their self-respect can handle.

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