Google's Android Market reaches 10 billion downloads
Google announced an impressive achievement for its mobile OS today - the ten billionth app download in its Android Market.
While the milestone is impressive enough on its own, it is the rate of growth which is truly staggering - four billion of the downloads have taken place in the last six months alone. See the graphic below.
To celebrate the accomplishment, Google put a number of popular apps and games on sale in the market for only ten pennies, so if you are an Android OS user, go ahead and start shopping!
Reader comments
- really?
- wrv
Are you comparing OS or phones? Coz the lag is highly dependent on the spec of the phone. All kinds of modern software has minimum & recommended requirements. You CAN'T compare OS by using different phones, and don't forget that iPhone & iOS ...
- huh
- wrv
and what exactly would the problems be? Market Pollution? Global Market Warming? App shortage? Jobless devs?
- Hirenz88
- veF
Going on its way too far..........leaving all behind... That the way World is gonna Androidify......
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