Pokemon Go was started as an app for April Fool’s joke and has transformed into a Marvel, accomplishing more than 15 million downloads in a week, giving the developers an estimated $1.6 million income daily.
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Its stock jumped by 70%, boosting its market value from £13bn to £19.6bn.
Have you been trying to find some way to download Pokemon GO to your devices ever since its release and subsequent delayed release in the UK?
He declined to go into a detailed timeframe for further rollouts but noted that the company’s first location-based augmented reality game Ingress had taken a month or two to reach that number of markets.
It was developed by the Pokemon Company, which is 32% owned by Nintendo, and Niantic, which was spun out of Google previous year when the search engine giant announced it was setting up Alphabet as its new parent company.
Once you are done, open Safari and search Pokémon Go for iOS.
However, the success of Pokemon Go has not been without controversy.
The nearby Arlington National Cemetery also warned off Pokemon players.
Many people across the continent have already been playing the game prior to the official release, thanks to a leaked APK of the Android version being made available and a nifty, if complex trick of swapping between different regional iTunes accounts on iPhone.
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The game, which marries Pokemon, the classic 20-year-old cartoon franchise, with augmented reality, allows players to walk around real-life neighborhoods while seeking virtual Pokemon game characters on their smartphone screens – a scavenger hunt that has earned enthusiastic early reviews.
