In the flurry of quickie reviews that appeared overnight after Wednesday’s unveiling of Motorola’s (MOT) Droid — Google (GOOG) and Verizon’s (VZ) latest answer to Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone — little has been said about how the two platforms stack up in terms of apps.

But it’s not as if there are no apps for the Droid. As of Thursday morning there were 11,284, according AndroidLib.com’s unofficial count of the offerings in Google’s Android Market. Moreover, that number too is growing by the thousands. Android developers added 2,333 new apps in September and another 2,431 so far in October.

In many ways, it’s a battle reminiscent of the PC operating system wars of the 1990s, with Google’s Android playing the role of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows. Like Microsoft, Google is offering an OS (albeit one that is license-free) that will run on multiple vendors’ hardware. Apple, as usual, is being Apple, keeping tight control of both the operating system and the hardware it runs on. Only this time, it’s Apple that was first to win the heart and minds of the developers.