The Windows Phone app store is shedding its ghost town image

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QOpn4_.rXSQ6w6D_1hu9RQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/windows-store1.png (http://news.yahoo.com/windows-phone-app-store-shedding-ghost-town-image-220033944.html)Although Windows Phone’s app market trails the iOS and Android app markets in just about every metric, it has received some good news the past couple days. On Wednesday, Instagram launched its Windows Phone app (though, without video support). On Thursday, a Strategy Analytics suvey suggests app developers are warming up to Windows Phone. And to cap it all off, Microsoft has now-released some statistics to Neowin that show increased activity on the Windows Phone platform. According to Microsoft, 10 million app transactions happen every day and a total of 3 billion apps have been downloaded since the Windows Phone Store opened in 2010. The company also boasts that the Windows Phone Store has about 190,000 apps with 500 new



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