Android Marketplace Racks Up 10 Billion App Downloads
Google are celebrating, big style, they have just had their 10 billionth app downloaded from the Android Marketplace and to mark this poignant moment they have announced that they are dropping the price of some top selling apps to just a dime or in UK terminology, 10p each.
The Android Marketplace is seeing huge growth very quickly, it has only taken one month to go from nine billion to 10 billion downloads.
Although Apple is still leading the pack, they announced their 15 billionth download in July 2011 but Android is really catching up fast.
Geoff Blaber an analyst for CCS Insight predicts, ‘we’d expect Android to overtake Apple in application downloads in the first half of 2012’.
With the arrival of the Amazon Kindle Fire, Android sales show no abating.
Take a look below at the apps you can pick up today for this incredible rate, grab them while you can.
Minecraft Pocket Edition
Imagine it, build it. Create worlds on the go with Minecraft – Pocket Edition
The new Minecraft – Pocket Edition allows you to build on the go. Use blocks to create masterpieces as you travel, hangout with friends, sit at the park, the possibilities are endless. Move beyond the limits of your computer and play Minecraft everywhere you go.
SwiftKey X Keyboard
Android typing has never been this easy. SwiftKey X Keyboard makes typing much easier on your phone, replacing your touchscreen keyboard with one powered by smarter natural language technology.
SwiftKey X understands how words work together, giving much more accurate corrections and predictions than other keyboards. Very sloppy typing will magically make sense, and SwiftKey X also powerfully predicts the word you may want next.
SoundHound
What’s that song? Identify it FAST with SoundHound. Unlimited music recognition! With the world’s fastest music recognition and exclusive singing search, SoundHound is instant music search and discovery.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
