Google has put the heat of its rival Apple with the launch of a new Android Market which now makes it possible for users to buy books and rent movies.
After dismally failing to get Amazon slapped down for having the audacity to use the universally recognised term ‘app store’ for their Android Appstore, Apple’s pugnacious lawyers have decided to pick on smaller fry, in the shape of the third-party app store GetJar.
Vast clouds of dislodged suit-dust threatened to engulf Cupertino today as Apple execs puffed out their chests and roared to the world, ” Over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from our App Store.”
When it comes to runaway tech success stories, they don’t get much bigger than Apple’s phenomenally successful mobile iOSApp Store, which has now seen a cool half a million apps approved.
As expected, Amazon has announced the launch of its new on-device and Web-based Android application hub, known as the Amazon Appstore, warmly welcomed by Apple who immediately launched a legal challenge over the name.
Coming to Amazon’s new Android appstore very soon soon is the latest instalment of the phenomenally successful Angry Birds game series.
Check out the suitably noisy trailer above for what’s in store.
Amazon’s new Appstore looks to be getting off to a lively start with news that the developers Rovio have dumped GetJar and will be exclusively releasing their new Angry Birds Rio for Android game on Amazon’s new download service.
With the Android Market now stuffed with over 100,000 apps, games and widgets, Google has made it easier to browse and search the collection – and install new apps – with a brand new website.
It was crowned as one of Apple’s top grossing apps of 2010 and it’s proved a hit on Android too, and to encourage more users to get physical, the RunKeeper Pro fitness app was offered for free throughout January.
There’s vast dust clouds rising over Apple’s HQs as the back slapping begins over the company’s incredible achievement of reaching the total of 10 billion app downloads from the Apple App Store.
As Apple continues its countdown to the 10 billionth app download, the company has posted up a page revealing its all-time top ten downloads.
The British Library has slammed down its first app, letting Android, iPhone and iPad devices gorge themselves on some of the world’s rarest and most interesting printed works.
Apple has opened the doors on it’s long-awaited Mac App Store, with the virtual shelves full of more than 1,000 free and paid applications.
The amount of apps available in the Android Market looks set to catch up – and even surpass – the total currently available in Apple’s App Store if the current rate of new Android app development continues.
Apple has announced that it will be launching its new Mac App Store on January 6.
Available in 90 countries at launch, the store will feature access to both paid and free apps across several categories, including education, productivity, and games.
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