Apple passed 1 million apps in the App Store in October 2013. Android passed 1 million apps in Google Play in July 2013.
Adam Rifkin stashed this in Business Facts
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Above: the Verge article announcing AppStore hitting a million apps.
Here's the article where Android hit 1 million apps in Google Play:
http://readwrite.com/2013/07/24/google-play-hits-one-million-android-apps
I found that on this Android statistics page:
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/android-statistics/
AndroidRank says at least 180,000 apps have achieved 10,000 installs:
http://www.androidrank.org/categorystats?category=&price=all&hl=en
There are over fifty Android apps with more than 100 million installs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_downloaded_Android_applications
"As of September 2013, Google Android OS have been installed on 80% of the world smartphones according to industry analysis, and there have been more than 1 billion Android mobile activations."
Fun article from 2009: "Can developers still make money in the AppStore?"
http://blog.flurry.com/bid/18265/Can-Developers-Still-Make-Money-in-the-iPhone-App-Store
6:09 PM Apr 25 2014