that the Market’s apps have been collectively downloaded over 2.5 billion times. The news should hardly come as a surprise, of course, as developers are becoming increasingly focused on the Android platform. At the current rate at which everything is going, Android is posed to become the most popular smartphone in the U.S early next year. Android’s global market share is skyrocketing as well, having gained 22% of the world’s smartphone market between the third quarter of 2009 and 2010 alone.

With the prices of Android phones also reaching a new demographic, the rate at which Android Market apps arise could possibly skyrocket exponentially. Are you one of the many who use an Android or plan to switch to one in the near future? Let us know in the comments below! You can check out some of the statistics shown by AndroLib in the gallery below:

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