The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: mobile “Star Wars” with birds in the main roles, the project Molyneux was not ready for the revolution (again), the best day for the release of the application is Monday. 

1. Android is 5 years oldOn November 5, Google celebrated the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Android operating system.

About how it all started, and how things are with the platform today in our little material.

2. iPad is losing ground in the tablet marketThe analytical company IDC has published a report on the tablet market for the third quarter of this year.

According to the results of this study, Apple is rapidly losing the tablet market. 

3. Newzoo presented the world box office chart of gamesNewzoo has published the world’s top 20 grossing iOS games for the past September.

It includes Clash of Clans, Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, The Simpsons™: Tapped Out, as well as a number of projects published only in the Japanese market.

4. Molyneux’s mobile game “fell”Peter Molyneux’s first mobile game, Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube, has been released on the App Store.

Almost immediately, the project server collapsed from the influx of users. But this did not prevent the development team from publishing the first statistics on the project.

5. Sunday and Monday are a good time to release the appChartboost presented the price dynamics for CPC campaigns, the number of views and the level of downloads by day of the week.

Judging by their data, projects launched on the App Store on Sunday or Monday receive certain advantages over applications released on other days of the week.

6. Angry Birds Star Wars is on saleRovio, together with Lucasfilm, has launched its new project in the Star Wars universe – Angry Birds Star Wars on seven platforms at once.

7. Huawei has broken into the top three smartphone manufacturersIn the third quarter of this year, the Chinese vendor ranked third in the global top manufacturers in terms of the number of deliveries of “smart phones”.

Finnish Nokia may drop out of the top by the new year.

8. TinyCo failed Guess!The creators of Tiny Village in September released a social project – a turn-based word game for iOS based on the popular tabletop Taboo.

Her results were far from ideal.

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