Topic: GOOGLE - on May 7, 2012 at 3:40:00 PM CEST
Google Play About To Pass 15 Billion App Downloads? Pssht! It Did That Weeks Ago
Way to blow your own horn, Google. Yesterday a newspaper in the UK, the Independent, ran a short item about how Google was about to reach an app milestone — 15 billion apps downloaded. So we reached out to Google to ask about this… and guess what? It already happened.
A Google spokesperson, Gina Weakley Johnson, tells us the milestone was passed “a few weeks ago.”
The last number that Google released with more public declaration was 11 billion downloads, when the store was still called the Android Market, which it announced during its Q4 2011 earnings in January. In April, when Google reported its Q1 2012 earnings, it didn’t mention downloads on Google Play, the newly-rebranded store.
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