Samsung App Store Sails Past Five Million Downloads

Samsung smart TV’s have been a roaring success as seen by the number of apps downloaded to the connected TV sets. Latest news from Samsung, is that their app store has hit the big 5 million downloads milestone for use with their ‘smart televisions’.

Samsung apps hit 5 million downloads mark

Samsung went past the million app downloads around 10 months after launch in Feb 2010, but then hit 2 million just 53 days later for Connected tv owners in around 120 countries worldwide, with the majority of the 550 apps available for free.

Since then Samsung have been getting figures of around 20,000 downloads daily. The top app is unsurprisingly YouTube, followed by Google Maps, Accuweather, Vimeo and a Texas Hold ‘Em poker completing the top five. Mist popular are games followed by educational apps.

Speaking for Samsung, Kang-hyun Kwon, senior vice president said:- “The TV is a family-based device and people want to lean back and enjoy their time in front of the TV. These apps are the entry point for consumers to discover other experiences on their TV like gaming and social networking as well as the limitless possibilities being created by our third-party developers.”

The apps are also getting a little more impressive, with the latest being an xplore 3D App for compatible 3DTV sets.

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