The battle between Apple iPhone and Goggle’s Android is getting more and more intense with each passing day. One of the most important elements in their success are the rich applications being offered by these Companies.

Since Apple has a head start in this field, it has developed more applications than Android. It has more than 200,000 applications already ready for iPhone users.

Android has reached almost 72,000 applications and its popularity seems to be increasing with every passing day. One of the biggest advantages Android has is that it is supported by most of the networks apart from getting the support of major handset vendors like HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

In the last month itself, 14,294 new applications for Android have been developed. This is a significant increase from the earlier times when very few applications were being developed. The increasing popularity of Android has also ensured that more and more interest is shown by the developers in making new applications.

The success of Android can be gauged from the fact that Google is shipping 100,000 new Android-based phones every day. Android has become a big headache for Apple and experts feel that Android’s popularity is only going to increase in the coming days.

Latest figures have pointed that Android has managed to beat Apple to the third spot. Android is next only to RIM’s BlackBerry OS.

But, Apple disputes these figures and maintains that it is still the second most popular smartphone OS in US market.