In an app ecosystem crowded by more than 1.7 million apps strange things happens at times. And one of the most strange things that happened recently was the rise and fall of flappy birds. Many mobile app development companies and experts speculate that Dong Nguyen, the maker of the game has purchased traffic over web to get high download numbers for his game. Nevertheless, the game has been a sensation over the app stores and has generated significant amount of revenues for the mobile app development expert Dong Nguyen. Let us look at the brief history of the game that became an overnight sensation then vanished from the appstore.
Flappy Birds was first launched in 24th may 2013 and registered a few downloads in Russia followed by its peak position in the country within a month. Within the next 3 months the game starts to spread and gains top spot in australia as well. Mobile app development expert Dong Nguyen, updates the application while downloads in the US picks in the mean time. Till the end of december flappy bird was one of the top 10 iOS apps in North America. The game continued to grow and registered a geometric growth in the month of january. The game makes entry into android and ends up at the top apps in many countries in play store. By the first week of february flappy birds became a rage and topped both the app stores. However after all that, Dong Nguyen put down the game apparently.
Some of the app review experts have been harsh on the game criticizing the graphics and the levels of difficulty that the game brings in. One of the experts has put that it is not possible to get traffic in all the applications that Dong Nguyen has developed. Nguyen also said that it is not possible to do that or else Apple app store would have axed the app much earlier. Finally on February 10, Dong Nguyen put the game and ended the flappy bird phenomenon.
There are many unanswered turns to the flappy bird story but one thing is clear. You just need an idea that is potential enough for you luck to play its part.
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