Google has just announced that it now has another app-related milestone under its proverbial belt. According to a new post on the official Android blog, the Google Play Store has crossed 25 billion app downloads
Google has chosen to commemorate the occasion with a slew of app discounts to push that number of downloads even higher for the next five days. According to a post on Google’s official blog, titles from developers Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic, Full Fat (just to name a few) will be among those being sold for a scant $0.25 starting later today. On top of that, Google also plans to push out some other special content bundles over the coming days — think collections of 25 must-own movies, albums, and banned books.
If the announcement sounds a bit familiar, it’s probably because Google has been awfully vociferous about its Play Store momentum lately. Sergey Brin’s stunning mid-air Glass demo may have stolen the show, but Google offered up some interesting Google Play Store statistics back at Google I/O in June — at the time, the company revealed that the Google Play Store had hit 20 billion installs, and saw over 1.5 billion app downloads per month. That’s a pretty solid jump from the roughly 1 billion downloads per month the Google Play Store saw back in late April/early May when it crossed the 15 billion download barrier, and at this point there’s no sign of that download momentum faltering any time soon.
