The countdown for the 25 billion downloads from App Store began!

Apple yesterday began the countdown for the 25th billionth app to be downloaded from the App Store. The promotional page on the site of ETAP states:
Today, nearly 25 billion apps have been download worldwide. Something that is so shocking, and the same applications. That's why we want to say thanks. Download the 25th billionth application and you could win a Gift Card from the App Store, value US $ 10.000. Simply visit the App Store and download your best fit.
The last quarter alone, the App Store revenue was more than $ 700 million. The total revenue of App Store to date is about $ 4 billion. It is worth noting the difference between 25 billion app downloads and 316 million iOS devices Apple, with 11 billion downloads from the Android Market and Android devices 250 million of Google. To App Store launched three years ago, on July 10, 2008, and that of Google followed three months later, on October 22, 2008.
If you have not read, Apple sold in 2011, more devices iOS Mac distance in 28 years.


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The torrents do not affect the U.S. Box Office!

With torrents sites closing one after the other (see Megaupload, Filesonic, BTJunkie), the data comes to reverse a new study suggests that illegal file-sharing related little or nothing to the U.S. Box Office.


The study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota Wellesley College as noted, reduced sales of the International Office Vox mainly related to delayed releases of films in the world than the U.S..


In other words, the research suggests that users tend to download movies when they are available on the internet and have not even released in their country, which is the responsibility of the film industry.


"The findings suggest that the International Box Office was low at least 7% compared with the sales would have achieved freedom from the early releases torrents. Instead, the U.S. Box Office does not appear to be affected by piracy. We believe that this is responsible for delaying the legitimate movement of the film world. "

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