2008’s biggest hit, App Store has just recently crossed a statistical watershed. The continuous “app”-a-lanche since the fateful day of July 11 has hit the roof and gone straight through it –crossing the 10,000 apps mark this weekend.

A report on148 apps highlights that nearly a quarter of these apps (24%) are games. There are 2339 (and ever on the rise) games, 1122 entertainment apps (1,122) and 1015 utilities apps at the App Store.
There are around 2439 free apps. The largest number of apps are priced at $0.99 -3522. The highest paid app is priced at $ 899.99.  All put together the average price of the apps is $3.13.

In terms of submission, September was the busiest month when a total of 2913 apps were submitted at the App Store. The apps continue to hit the App Store with renewed ferocity each day. As pointed out in 148 Apps:

In just 142 days, the iPhone OS app store has added over 10,000 apps! An amazing feat for any platform. To commemorate this we’ve put up a special page. More on this after the weekend.

MacRumors differs on this count though, ever so slightly:

While several sites have reported that 10,000 iPhone Apps have been released into the App Store, the actual number of active iPhone apps that can be downloaded is about 9,676 as of today’s count. The discrepancy comes from the fact that many apps have been removed from the App Store for various reasons (trademark infringement, discontinued apps, pulled and released).

For a superbly done “10,000 special page”, check out 148 Apps here.