October 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: AndroidOS | 2 Comments »
Angry Birds officially launched on Android today, and it had selected GetJar as the channel to star on. As the game was given away for free, it seemed to have killed the portal.
We don’t know what the success rate is, but this message has been displayed on the GetJar site during part of the day;
Dear visitors, GetJar website is experiencing temporary technical problems due to a totally undexpected high demand for the new free game Angry Birds. Please visit the mobile site at http://m.getjar.com with your Android phone to get the game. We sincerely app-ologize for the problems. GetJar team.
95.000 downloads in three hours, time for GetJar’s crisis management time to come into action.
Strange, I installed Angry Birds from the Android market about a month ago?
True, that was the public beta version.