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Android Market has exceeded 10 billion app downloads

By on December 6, 2011 at 1:21pm in Mobile News

It’s all coming together. Earlier today Google launched a $0.10 promo on selct Android apps, now the company has announced that they have successfully passed over the 10 billion app download milestone.

On the company blog they stated that “One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing. This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads—with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month. We can’t wait to see where this accelerating growth takes us in 2012.”

Those are actually incredibly impressive stats. Think, in the last 6 months Android users have downloaded 4 billion apps. Going a bit further shows that since March there has been 7 billion apps downloaded, and since July of 2010 users have downloaded over 8.5 billion apps. That’s huge growth and could be directly attributed that Google has activated 200 million Android devices and seeing 550,000 new activations everyday.

Comparing to other app download stats, probably the most prominent is Apple’s App Store with July stats having “over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store”. Also in July, RIM revealed that they crossed over the “1 billion app download milestone”.

In addition, Google also said that more 10 cent apps are en route, “Starting today for the next 10 days, we’ll have a new set of awesome apps available each day for only 10 cents each”.

Source: Android Developers

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Discussion

9 comments for “Android Market has exceeded 10 billion app downloads”

  1. Haha I thought the sale was the reach 10 billion before the new year… When I saw this post I got scared that they might be ending the sale because they reached their goal already :P

    I loves me some 10cent apps!

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    Posted by Mike | December 6, 2011, 1:26 pm
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  2. Best part is that it’s Apps we actually want

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    Posted by {JPM} | December 6, 2011, 2:06 pm
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  3. Unlike the free apps that RIM has provided.

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    Posted by The Ice Cream Man | December 6, 2011, 3:34 pm
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  4. They may not have been the first to reach the 10 billion download mark, but they sure are catching up fast. It’s good to see this level of interest and competition.

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    Posted by Brad F | December 6, 2011, 3:57 pm
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  5. I’ve downloaded all the apps they made available for 10 cents today. I plan to get all of them in the next 10 days. This is awesome. As mentioned above, they are apps I actually want. Another reason why I bought an android phone, there is nothing out there like it.

    Thanks for making it an awesome Tuesday Google. Keep on killing the so called “competition” out there.

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    Posted by Dalex | December 6, 2011, 4:29 pm
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  6. why can’t they be free, why 10 cents

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    Posted by WHY CANT THEY BE FREE | December 6, 2011, 6:29 pm
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    • It’s part of the marketing. Google can absolutely afford to subsidize the entire costs of these apps to make them free for consumers, but having 10 apps for 10 cents for 10 days is more interesting. People respond better to seeing things heavily discounted temporarily than to things that are always free. Otherwise, all of the free apps already in the market would be downloaded nonstop.

      Stop being so cheap.

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      Posted by FyshStyx | December 6, 2011, 7:15 pm

  7. Waiting for an I-troll post.

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    Posted by Richard | December 7, 2011, 12:37 am
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  8. This is great. Good job Google!

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    Posted by Chris | December 7, 2011, 10:48 am
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