Angry Bird

Angry Birds is ftured in the April 2011 issue of Wired magazine (UK). This is a grt article that contains some fascinating insights about Angry Birds, Rovio, Angry Birds Rio, and the future of the franchise. Below are some excerpts from the article, but if you’re a fan I highly recommend you check out the full article.First, some stats, which are mind-blowing:Every day, users spend 200 million minutes — 16 yrs every hour — playing the Angry Birds.Three trillion pigs have been popped.It is or has been the -one paid app on iTunes in 68 countriesAngry Birds is the best-selling paid app of all timeIt went straight to the top of the new Mac App Store in January, selling 150,000 copies in its first week.20 million paid downloads for the iPhone and iPod Touch20 million ad-supported downloads on AndroidSixty thousand Angry Birds soft toys have been sold.In total, the “brand” has taken more than $69,000,000Angry Birds cost about $100,000 to makeAngry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd title.