Independent app store gathering a head of steam.
GetJar says it's now generating more than three million downloads a day, cementing its position as the second largest app store behind Apple's.
CEO Ilja Laurs says that daily downloads have tripled in the last year, with people in more than 200 countries now using the site.
GetJar also says that Android apps are becoming an increasingly important part of its business - it's now the second most popular platform in terms of submissions to the store.
"As consumers move from ‘browsing and searching’ to ‘downloading and tapping’, we are seeing that apps are becoming a mainstream way for people to consume content not only in the developed markets on smartphones but all over the world on all different types of handsets," says Laurs.
These three million daily downloads are all free, of course. GetJar has released a list of the ten most popular: Facebook, eBuddy, Nimbuzz, mig33, Opera Mini, Yahoo! Mobile, Google, Yahoo! Mail, Bolt, and YouTube.
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CMO Patrick Mork says patterns are emerging in terms of app popularity around the world though.
"We see Indian consumers downloading more productivity applications that enhance the usage of their phone compared to Americans for example and English consumers downloading more entertainment apps then Indians. Religious apps are popular in the Middle East."
