Sunday, July 21, 2013

Google Play hits 50 billion downloads - TeK.sapo

The store multimedia content and applications Google Play has recently hit the 50 billion downloads. The figure was revealed by the director general of the search engine giant, Larry Page, during the conference call with investors that followed the presentation of results.

The operating system Android Market reaches the goal two months later from the Apple App Store have reached the same mark. Both online stores are a very close fight in terms of numbers – of applications available and downloads made – but Google Play seems to take advantage.

The App Store hit that mark on May 16, almost a month before the market fulfill its fifth anniversary. Google Play hits 50 billion downloads three months before fulfilling also his fifth birthday, which happens in October.

On May 15 Google had announced 48 billion downloads, which gives an average of one billion apps, movies, series, magazines and songs downloaded per month.

Larry Page also revealed that developers are making more money than ever, having the Google paid both in the first half of 2013 and paid during the year 2012.

The numbers presented by Google should not slow down as early as the daily rate of active devices with the Android operating system is around 1.5 million units.

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