Google Play hits 25 billion downloads, celebrates with app sale and special collections

The Google Play store hit 25 billion downloads this week. To celebrate, the online store is offering a bunch of 25-cent apps from some major developers throughout the week.

The Google Play store, home to more than 675,000 apps and games for Android-powered devices, hit 25 billion downloads this week, less than four years after opening for business.

To celebrate the milestone, discounts on a number of apps will be available over the next five days.

Anyone interested in picking up some cut-price software will have the chance to choose from a range of titles created by high-profile developers such as Gameloft, Electronic Arts, and Rovio. With an asking price of just 25 cents, Google Play is sure to see a spike in paid-for downloads in the coming days.

Google Play, called Android Market until earlier this year, is also offering special collections, such as “25 movies you must own, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and our 25 top selling magazines, all at special prices,” Google’s Jamie Rosenberg wrote in a blog post announcing the news.

Arch-rival Apple hit 25 billion downloads with its iOS App Store back in March, taking only slightly less time than Google Play in terms of how long the stores have been up and running. In fact, in terms of downloads and apps available (Google Play has 675,000 compared with iOS’s 700,000), Google Play and the iOS store are now pretty much neck and neck.

But there are now more Android devices in the hands of users than iOS-powered devices, so it surely won’t be long before Google Play surpasses its rival in terms of download numbers.

“Twenty-five billion is more than twice the distance, in miles, that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled since its launch 35 years ago,” Rosenberg wrote on the official Android blog. “It’s the amount of time, in minutes, that have passed since some of our earliest ancestors began to set foot in Europe. And now, thanks to all of you, it’s a Google Play milestone. We look forward to the next 25 billion.”

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Afrinolly Hits Over 1 Million Downloads

We have received a report that Afrinolly has hit a million downloads in less than a year after it’s launch on 7th Septemeber 2012. In a press release sent to us by Afrinolly, the app crossed this milestone 3 weeks ago as downloads across all platforms namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 and Java crossed the 1 million mark.

It will be recalled that Afrinolly emerged as the winner of the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in the Entertainment category in September 2011, Afrinolly has since then seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 65%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow behind while USA, UK, Brazil and India makes up majority of the rest.

Afrinolly Press Release:

Press Release; Afrinolly Hits Over 1 Million Downloads. Thank You For Making It Happen

Today, we are excited to announce that Afrinolly has seen over a million downloads within the last eleven months thanks to you. Precisely three weeks ago downloads of Afrinolly across all platforms namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 and Java crossed the One million mark.

Since emerging as the winner of the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in the Entertainment category in September 2011, we have seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 65%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow, USA, UK, Brazil and India make up majority of the rest.

Today’s announcement reflects growing customer demand for discovery, entertainment and social functionality on their favorite mobile phones. With MTN Afrinolly, MTN has shown its commitment to support the local apps community and has led the campaign to raise awareness among mobile subscribers who are still unaware of the full range of potential services they can enjoy via their mobile phones.

On Afrinolly, customers discover upcoming movies via their trailers helping them to plan on seeing such at the cinemas, they are able to follow their favorite African movie celebrities and read entertainment news/gossips from across Africa right on their mobile devices.

Thank You, to all our 1,000,000 plus friends for your feedbacks that has helped in improving the app. Thank you to all the super Producers, Directors, Film Makers, Actors and Artists from across Africa whose works have made the African entertainment scene exciting. We are excited with this growth and we say a big THANK YOU. Next stop 5 million… Let’s Do This.

The Afrinolly Team
Press Release; Afrinolly Hits Over 1 Million Downloads. Thank You For Making It Happen

Today, we are excited to announce that Afrinolly has seen over a million downloads within the last eleven months thanks to you. Precisely three weeks ago downloads of Afrinolly across all platforms namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 and Java crossed the One million mark.

Since emerging as the winner of the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in the Entertainment category in September 2011, we have seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 65%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow, USA, UK, Brazil and India make up majority of the rest.

Today’s announcement reflects growing customer demand for discovery, entertainment and social functionality on their favorite mobile phones. With MTN Afrinolly, MTN has shown its commitment to support the local apps community and has led the campaign to raise awareness among mobile subscribers who are still unaware of the full range of potential services they can enjoy via their mobile phones.

On Afrinolly, customers discover upcoming movies via their trailers helping them to plan on seeing such at the cinemas, they are able to follow their favorite African movie celebrities and read entertainment news/gossips from across Africa right on their mobile devices.

Thank You, to all our 1,000,000 plus friends for your feedbacks that has helped in improving the app. Thank you to all the super Producers, Directors, Film Makers, Actors and Artists from across Africa whose works have made the African entertainment scene exciting. We are excited with this growth and we say a big THANK YOU. Next stop 5 million… Let’s Do This.

The Afrinolly Team
Today, we are excited to announce that Afrinolly has seen over a million downloads within the last eleven months thanks to you. Precisely three weeks ago downloads of Afrinolly across all platforms namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 and Java crossed the One million mark.

Since emerging as the winner of the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in the Entertainment category in September 2011, we have seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 65%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow, USA, UK, Brazil and India make up majority of the rest.

Today’s announcement reflects growing customer demand for discovery, entertainment and social functionality on their favorite mobile phones. With MTN Afrinolly, MTN has shown its commitment to support the local apps community and has led the campaign to raise awareness among mobile subscribers who are still unaware of the full range of potential services they can enjoy via their mobile phones.

On Afrinolly, customers discover upcoming movies via their trailers helping them to plan on seeing such at the cinemas, they are able to follow their favorite African movie celebrities and read entertainment news/gossips from across Africa right on their mobile devices.

Thank You, to all our 1,000,000 plus friends for your feedbacks that has helped in improving the app. Thank you to all the super Producers, Directors, Film Makers, Actors and Artists from across Africa whose works have made the African entertainment scene exciting. We are excited with this growth and we say a big THANK YOU. Next stop 5 million… Let’s Do This.

The Afrinolly Team
Today, we are excited to announce that Afrinolly has seen over a million downloads within the last eleven months thanks to you. Precisely three weeks ago downloads of Afrinolly across all platforms namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 and Java crossed the One million mark.

Since emerging as the winner of the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in the Entertainment category in September 2011, we have seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 65%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow, USA, UK, Brazil and India make up majority of the rest.

Today’s announcement reflects growing customer demand for discovery, entertainment and social functionality on their favorite mobile phones. With MTN Afrinolly, MTN has shown its commitment to support the local apps community and has led the campaign to raise awareness among mobile subscribers who are still unaware of the full range of potential services they can enjoy via their mobile phones.

On Afrinolly, customers discover upcoming movies via their trailers helping them to plan on seeing such at the cinemas, they are able to follow their favorite African movie celebrities and read entertainment news/gossips from across Africa right on their mobile devices.

Thank You, to all our 1,000,000 plus friends for your feedbacks that has helped in improving the app. Thank you to all the super Producers, Directors, Film Makers, Actors and Artists from across Africa whose works have made the African entertainment scene exciting. We are excited with this growth and we say a big THANK YOU. Next stop 5 million… Let’s Do This.

The Afrinolly Team
Today, we are excited to announce that Afrinolly has seen over a million downloads within the last eleven months thanks to you. Precisely three weeks ago downloads of Afrinolly across all platforms namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 and Java crossed the One million mark.

Since emerging as the winner of the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in the Entertainment category in September 2011, we have seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 65%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow, USA, UK, Brazil and India make up majority of the rest.

Today’s announcement reflects growing customer demand for discovery, entertainment and social functionality on their favorite mobile phones. With MTN Afrinolly, MTN has shown its commitment to support the local apps community and has led the campaign to raise awareness among mobile subscribers who are still unaware of the full range of potential services they can enjoy via their mobile phones.

On Afrinolly, customers discover upcoming movies via their trailers helping them to plan on seeing such at the cinemas, they are able to follow their favorite African movie celebrities and read entertainment news/gossips from across Africa right on their mobile devices.

Thank You, to all our 1,000,000 plus friends for your feedbacks that has helped in improving the app. Thank you to all the super Producers, Directors, Film Makers, Actors and Artists from across Africa whose works have made the African entertainment scene exciting. We are excited with this growth and we say a big THANK YOU. Next stop 5 million… Let’s Do This.

Source : techtalkafrica[dot]com