{"id":29100,"date":"2012-09-26T20:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=29100"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:44:10","slug":"google-play-hits-25-billion-downloads-celebrates-with-5-day-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-play-hits-25-billion-downloads-celebrates-with-5-day-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play hits 25 billion downloads, celebrates with 5 day sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-play-hits-25-billion-downloads-celebrates-with-5-day-sale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29101\" title=\"Google Play\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/Google-Play-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>Google announced that <a title=\"Google Play at onsoftware\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-play\">Google Play<\/a> <strong>surpassed 25 billion downloads<\/strong>.  This is a milestone for Google&#8217;s digital store because it shows that people actively using the store to download digital content.<\/p>\n<p>Android is available on various smartphones and tablets from a variety of manufacturers and it&#8217;s great to see the ecosystem thriving.  Even with all the development issues that come from testing on thousands of devices, Google Play is still able to offer a great amount of content.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, Google Play is offering a five day sale.  Games from developers like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/gameloft\" title=\"Gameloft on Softonic\">Gameloft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/rovio\" title=\"Rovio on Softonic\">Rovio<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/electronicarts\" title=\"Electronic Arts on Softonic\">Electronic Arts<\/a> will be available for 25 cents.  Google Play will also be offering special collections of books, movies, music, and magazines at special prices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29102\" title=\"Google Play app installs\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/google-play.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/google-play.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/google-play-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sale on Google Play starts today and continues for five days.  Be sure to visit the Play store every day so you don&#8217;t miss the latest deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced that Google Play surpassed 25 billion downloads. This is a milestone for Google&#8217;s digital store because it shows that people actively using the store to download digital content. Android is available on various smartphones and tablets from a variety of manufacturers and it&#8217;s great to see the ecosystem thriving. Even with all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-play-hits-25-billion-downloads-celebrates-with-5-day-sale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Play hits 25 billion downloads, celebrates with 5 day sale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":29101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2422],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-29100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-play"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333619,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions\/333619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=29100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}