Google Play turns 5

Yordan, 07 March 2017

March 6, 2012, is the day Google opened its digital store for apps, games, movies, music, books across all Android devices. In five years it reached 1 billion active users in 190 countries with 40 million songs, 5 million books and countless apps and movies downloads. To celebrate Google released lists of the top 5 items across all its categories in the Store.

Google Play is now available on all Android phones, tablets, on Chromebooks, Android Wear devices and even Daydream, Google’s VR platform. Here is some of the content Android users have downloaded for five years:

Top Installed Games

Candy Crush Saga
Subway Surfers
Temple Run 2
Despicable Me
Clash of Clans

In the Top Installed Apps we see Facebook trumping everyone else with 3 out of 5 most downloaded apps. Google clarifies that this chart does not include pre-installed apps on Android devices.

Top Installed Apps

Facebook
Facebook Messenger
Pandora Radio
Instagram
Snapchat

Source

Google Android

Reader comments

Akinaro
10 Mar 2017
d%W

what? What freeware have to do with market place? We talking about platform that SELL and distribute applications, grames, movies and other media. And that platform after 5 years STILL dont have simple search option and sorting. Such fea...

Pragmatic
08 Mar 2017
7Xm

Such is the price of freeware. Google needs to get money from somewhere, if not the consumers.

Arian Adler
08 Mar 2017
JK1

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