GetJar Exceeds Half a Billion Downloads
GetJar announced that consumers have downloaded more than half a billion mobile apps. According to GetJar its store now hosts nearly 50,000 mobile applications available in more than 200 different countries. More than half of its customers download content at least once a week.
The most popular applications in GetJar are:
- Google Maps for mobile – over 5 million downloads
- mig33 mobile community – over 10 million downloads
- Opera Mini web browser – nearly 17 million downloads
- eBuddy instant messaging – over 16 million downloads
- Nimbuzz mobile messaging – nearly 14 million downloads
This announcement comes a day after Apple reported its App Store topped the 1.5 billion iPhone and iPod touch application download benchmark.
