Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free, ad-supported apps; when Angry Birds arrived free on Android in October, demand crashed the third-party GetJar site that first hosted it.
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