Apple App Store Hits 50,000 Applications

Apple’s App Store, which offers free and fee-based applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, has hit a new milestone.

The store now offers 50,000 applications to feed the ravenous appetites of the 40 million iPhones and iPod touches.

Let’s see how many apps the other mobile phone platforms have:

Now tell us what chance the new Palm Pre has of storming the iPhone citadel.