Angry Birds game earned $12 million this year
Angry Birds has been downloaded 12 million times from iOS devices and the price of the game is 99 cents. This has brought approximately $8 million for the creators of the game – Rovio, after deducting 30% share, which takes Apple. This game also has been downloaded 5 million times for free from the Android Market and unlike the version that is available for iOS devices, the Android version is supported by ads.
The Director of Rovio – Peter Vesterbacka says that by the end of this year (which is after about 4 weeks), predicted the company to make profits from $1 million a month on the version of Angry Birds, which is sponsored by advertising and can be downloaded for free from Android Market. And for those of you who are wondering how Google benefits from an open operating system like Android, the company in Mountain View took a share of the money generated by advertising that did generated by AdMob company (owned by Google of course). For users of Android, that don’t want to see ads while playing, the company Rovio is working on the paid version of the game, which will be ads-free.