The Weather Channel App Reaches 5-Million Downloads on Android
Some publishers are doing insanely well for themselves in the Android market. The Weather Channel – one of the most popular application publishers (on a number of different platforms) – just surpassed five-million downloads for their Android application yesterday. The feat makes them the most used weather application on the platform, and one of the top five applications overall.
Being an Android user, you’d never know how well certain apps are doing past a certain point as Android reports them as having “>250,000 downloads” whenever they reach that point. Ever since version 1.0, Google still hasn’t expanded that field to allow for applications that topple the millions mark. I don’t think they realize just how fast the market has grown over the past year and a half (even after they shouted their stats through a megahorn at the Google I/O conference last month).
If you need to keep up on simple or detailed weather forecasts and reports, then give The Weather Channel’s app a try. It’s like having a meteorologist in your pocket, if there’s no better way to put it.