According to this official Google post, Google Play is celebrating 25 Billion downloads with a $.25 sale on games as well as 'a curated collection of 25 must-own movies, 25 banned books, 25 albums that changed the world and 25 top-selling magazines'. Not sure if that means those latter items will also be $.25, but likely sale priced at least. The sale will occur over the next 5 days.
Link is in member summary below. Be sure to check back for the next five days as the sale items are expected to change every day.
Also 25 banned books for $.99 each. Go to google play store Books section for link. Magazine special not very special, but 25 magazine issues $1.99 each.
9/30 apps Horn - Visually Stunning 3rd person Adventure Exclusive To Mobile! HORN is a 3rd per... The Dark Knight Rises - Become Batman and save Gotham City from the biggest threat it's ever faced. T... Haunted House HD - Enter and explore a spooky haunted house - in true 3-D. From the creators of ... Smart Tools - Measure length, angle, distance, height, direction and sound with Nova Launcher Prime - Highly customizable, performance driven, home screen replacement for Android ... Great Big War Game - "Just buy it, plain and simple." IGN.com - 95% "Amazing" (Editor's choice) Ta... Scramble With Friends - Scramble With Friends™ - The fast, fun word-finding game everyone's playing! ... Kids Numbers and Math - A fun way for kids to learn numbers and build basic math skills. Wouldn't it ... Guns'n'Glory WW2 Premium - Enter the battle and lead your troops to glory! Explosive defense action in W... Gravity Guy - ★ HD graphics ★ Multiplayer mode to 4 players ★Two game modes Story and Pract... Air Control - You are the air traffic controller helping the planes safely to ground. SALE ... Air Control HD - You are the air traffic controller helping the planes safely to ground. SALE ... SketchBook Pro- For everyone who loves to draw - Autodesk SketchBook. Autodesk® SketchBook® P... SPY mouse - Danger. Intrigue. Stealth. Cheese… Agent Squeak *is* SPY mouse! Danger. Intri...
9/29 apps Where's My Perry? Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro Madden NFL 12 by EA Sports Camera Zoom FX Cut the Rope Ski Safari Order & Chaos Online cogs Cut the Rope HD Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book RealCalc Plus Pool Break Pro Farm Invasion USA - Premium Broken Sword : Director's Cut
Full list for 9/28: Amazing Alex TuneIn Radio Pro Temple Run: Brave HD Widgets PicSay Pro - Photo Editor Monsters Ate My Condo Flick Golf! ezPDF Reader PDF Annotate Form Kids ABC Letters Rebuild ZombieSmash mSecure - Password Manager MASS EFFECTâ„¢ INFILTRATOR Dragon, Fly! Full
9/27 Apps: World of Goo Color & Draw for Kids phone ed Color & Draw for Kids HD FIFA 12 Mini Motor Racing Dungeon Village Shark Dash Cut the Rope Experiments Flick Nations Rugby Paper Camera SketchBook Mobile doubleTwist Alarm Clock The Going to Bed Book - Boynton
9/26 apps: Angry Birds Space Premium Asphalt 7: Heat Clouds & Sheep Premium Draw Something Granny Smith Let's Create! Pottery NFL Kicker 13 Ocean HD OfficeSuite Pro 6 + (PDF & HD) runtastic PRO Sudoku Symphony of Eternity Tasks The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
I'm new to google play, do the games and apps work on a PC or just on phones or tablets?
marsilies
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 11:47a
FrugalFreak said: I'm new to google play, do the games and apps work on a PC or just on phones or tablets? They only work on Android devices (phones and tablets) that have Google Play.
Is a separate license required for each device? Can an app be transferred to another device (uninstall from one device and install on another)?
marsilies
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 12:27p
FutureDilemma said: Is a separate license required for each device? Can an app be transferred to another device (uninstall from one device and install on another)? As long as you own all of them and have your google account on all of them, you can install and run the apps on multiple devices.
neevakee6
New Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 12:52p
This is great!!! I remember the $0.10 sale and stocked up on some super primo apps then and was wondering when we would get another sale like that one.
phermat
Senior Member - 10K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 12:56p
App list photo uploaded into Member Summary.
Don't see anything that would correspond to the 25-Billion Celebration in books, albums, or movies. Anyone found those links?
coolbreeze
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 1:03p
phermat said: App list photo uploaded into Member Summary.
Don't see anything that would correspond to the 25-Billion Celebration in books, albums, or movies. Anyone found those links? It's probably forthcoming. The news on the .25 apps broke and it took a few hours before Google put up the page.
wordgirl
Senior Member - 10K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 1:10p
I can't find an online link, but the books are listed on the Play Store on my mobile. Includes a lot of modern classics: Prince of Tides, Rosemary's Baby, Exodus, Sophie's Choice, Boy's Life, Candy, From Here to Eternity, Fear of Flying, Sex and the Single Girl, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Essays in Humanism, A Sport and a Pastime, Confessions of Nat Turner, The Werewolf of Paris, Citizen Tom Paine, God's Little Acre, The Terrorist, Being and Nothingness, Always Running, The Bastard, Gentleman's Agreement, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, The Black Book, The Confessions of Nat Turner ... I think that's it.
The magazine and movie links are also showing on my mobile but alas, my boss wants me to work. Doh!
chrislk1986
Broke Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 1:38p
Damn, was hoping the albums would be 25 cents. Good deals though!
Thanks, got 4 of these. there is a full, extended list over on the 'OTHER' site - s d
eajohnst
Thrifty Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 1:52p
Amazon price matched most things back when Goolge had the .10 sale. So, if you are invested in the Amazon ecosystem, it might be worth your time to double-check the prices over there.
eajohnst said: Amazon price matched most things back when Goolge had the .10 sale. So, if you are invested in the Amazon ecosystem, it might be worth your time to double-check the prices over there.
Spot-checked around but nothing so far. I'm sure Amazon will move on it later though.
Anyone else find the list of "must-own movies" a little baffling? Seems like Google might've put a signup sheet in the lunchroom or something.
The books are a little more defensible, though as YA classics go, Bette Greene's "Summer of My German Soldier" is about 100x better than her "The Drowning of Stephan Jones" and is one of the most-banned YA novels of all time (since this list is meant to be based on banned books). Looking on Amazon, "The Terrorist" is the lowest-rated of all Caroline Cooney's books (and seems to have been "banned" mostly because it was ignorant and pretty mindlessly hateful... in other words, bad.) She's never been in the ranks of "classic" writers AFAIK. So including those two is ... weird.
coolbreeze
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 3:35p
BenUrsa said: 25 Movies Not a single one of those is .25
eajohnst said: Amazon price matched most things back when Goolge had the .10 sale. So, if you are invested in the Amazon ecosystem, it might be worth your time to double-check the prices over there.
Is there any advantage at all to buying apps from Amazon instead of Google? Google give you updates more quickly and with less copy protection hassle.
manly
Charter Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 3:59p
johnny98 said: eajohnst said: Amazon price matched most things back when Goolge had the .10 sale. So, if you are invested in the Amazon ecosystem, it might be worth your time to double-check the prices over there.
Is there any advantage at all to buying apps from Amazon instead of Google? Google give you updates more quickly and with less copy protection hassle. Less copy protection hassle?
One small thing I like about Amazon is that you can buy an app, but not download it to your device. Makes hoarding easier. Google automatically deploys the app to your device after purchase from a PC.
scoobydooby
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 4:02p
manly said: Less copy protection hassle?
Try uninstalling the Amazon app on your device - all your Amazon installed apps will suddenly stop working and need to be reinstalled. Also, if you clean up your device and wipe the AmazonCache, all Amazon apps stop working.
The apps/games @ 25 cents, awesome. The books @ 99 cents, not bad. But the music @ 3.99, boo and hiss. Then comes the movies. I saw the Lorax 3.99 and was like well maybe, it would get played more than once at least. Clicked on it and $$%^# blank blank $%^$#% what? Rental is 3.99 and the BUY price was 11.99! 11.99 to "buy" a DRMed file, are they insane?
Not to mention that selection of titles across all formats is strange at best. Seems more like the 25 titles we wish someone would buy...
manly said: johnny98 said: eajohnst said: Amazon price matched most things back when Goolge had the .10 sale. So, if you are invested in the Amazon ecosystem, it might be worth your time to double-check the prices over there.
Is there any advantage at all to buying apps from Amazon instead of Google? Google give you updates more quickly and with less copy protection hassle. Less copy protection hassle?
One small thing I like about Amazon is that you can buy an app, but not download it to your device. Makes hoarding easier. Google automatically deploys the app to your device after purchase from a PC.
Amazon inserts copy protection into every app they sell and you need to have the Amazon marketplace running on your device to validate the copy protection before the app will run.
The difference is that most people get devices with Google Play already installed, while many people install Amazon's Appstore after the fact. So Google Play isn't removable, so people don't notice the DRM.
If you have a Kindle Fire, getting the apps through Amazon may be better as you can share them between the Fire and your phone.
VoR
Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 4:28p
The nice thing with Amazon is you can install it on all your devices in the family and not have your gmail linked to them all also. Buy an app once and put it on your tablet, phone, kids tablet etc.
FrugalFreak
Roll Tide
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 6:18p
scoobydooby said: manly said: Less copy protection hassle?
Try uninstalling the Amazon app on your device - all your Amazon installed apps will suddenly stop working and need to be reinstalled. Also, if you clean up your device and wipe the AmazonCache, all Amazon apps stop working.
maybe for apps, but not music.
cyfan
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 6:56p
Know what I just realized? I would buy ten times as many apps at 25 cents than I ever did at $1.00. Odd but in my mind 25 cents is nothing but $1 feels like something.
Good to see Patsy Cline and Snoop Dogg (or is that Lion) on the same sale.
chibimike
Happy Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 7:45p
Runtastic Pro for $.25 is ridiculously cool.
SecondGunman
What grassy knoll?
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 8:20p
It looks like Amazon hasn't PM'd the book prices. Guess I'm buying from google and stripping the DRM to move them to my Kindle. I don't want to run the risk of the price going up before Amazon price matches...
sheriffabc
Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 8:34p
Does google play run on Playbook?
coolbreeze
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 8:36p
sheriffabc said: Does google play run on Playbook? Google play only "runs" on Android devices. Chances are if you just asked this question, you haven't reverse-engineered Android to run on your Playbook.
So no, Google Play doesn't run on the Blackberry Operating System.
mrkk
Handsome Member
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 8:51p
just bought nexus 7
that 25$ credit is handy now!
coolbreeze
Senior Member - 3K
posted: Sep. 26, 2012 @ 9:40p
For some reason, I find myself hesitating on some apps yet I spent $20 on lunch today without thinking twice. Doesn't make much sense, but I'm sure I'm not alone.
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