Last year, Adobe announced that it is going to stop the development of mobile Flash Player for Android. Adding further nails in that coffin, Adobe has now announced that Flash Player won't be supported in Android 4.1. A prime example of this is the new Nexus 7 tablet, that ships without Flash support.Furthermore, Adobe has announced that it will cease new Flash Player downloads from the... full story ![]()
Apple announced a big milestone in app downloads on Wednesday, the same day that Google's I/O developer conference kicked off in San Francisco. The app store has now seen 50 million downloads so far.
gigaom.com (3 days ago)

The growth in Android phones and an appetite for game downloads means Google's Play store is booming, say technology analysts.
sky.com (27 days ago)
The countdown on Apple’s website stopped late Wednesday indicating that the company’s App Store has surpassed 50 billion downloads. The milestone comes just 14 months after Apple announced 25 billion apps had been downloaded from its popular marketplace. Apple launched the App Store in July 2008 and downloads have increased steadily over the past five years. The company’s...
yahoo.com (3 days ago)
The apps economy stats are pretty staggering. In first quarter of 2013 alone, the app downloads amounted to more than 13.4 billion across four major stores - Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry World - according to the latest report by Canalys. App downloads grew by 11% between Quarter 4 2012 and Quarter 1 2013. Total revenue generated in the...
forbes.com (1 month and 9 days ago)
Brandon Ashmore, who calls Mentor, Ohio, home, is having a very good day. Apple on Thursday announced that Ashmore download the 50 billionth app from the App Store. As part of Apple’s promotion for the historic download, this makes Ashmore the lucky winner of an iTunes gift card worth a cool $10,000. The app Ashmore downloaded to win the prize was Space Inch’s new Say the...
macworld.com (3 days ago)

Apple has crossed the 50 billion app downloads milestone on the App Store. The store opened up to the public back in July 2008 and since then has gone on to become the biggest and most popular software store in the world. As we reported before, Apple had a countdown running on their website that showed in real-time the apps being downloaded. The person who would download the...
gsmarena.com (3 days ago)

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008. Apple Inc. said Thursday that the 50 billionth download was a game called “Say the Same Thing” by Space Inch. The App Store had 500 apps when it first opened. It now has more than 850,000 individual apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod...
time.com (2 days ago)

Is Facebook Home a hit? The reception for this Android software has been decidedly mixed, but there is at least one statistic the social network can tout: As of this weekend, Home has been downloaded more than 500,000 times. That's not a bad showing for an app that launched just over a week ago, on April 12, in the Google Play store. It also doesn't count sales of the HTC...
abcnews.com (26 days ago)
Although they can be annoying, Adobe’s frequent updates to its Flash player and other software can help keep your computer safer.
nytimes.com (2 months and 2 days ago)
New milestone notes a rapid escalation in app downloads.
businessspectator.com.au (2 days ago)
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