Cut the Rope was released in the first position in the Android Market

Russian Cut the Rope game only took a week for what used to take first place in the list of free applications Android Market. This is a stunning success for the domestic game developer'ov who created the game, which became a hit in the market for mobile applications. Since the game took the fifth place of honor among paid apps in AppStore, and the graphs of the popularity ahead of a hit this season Angry Birds. It is also broken another record for games in the AppStore - for what used to collect one million paid downloads game took only 9 days. 
By the way, the publisher of the British company Games Chillingo, the same as that of the Angry Birds. 

The game's plot is tied to cutting a rope so that b candy attached to it fell into the mouth game character Am Nyamu, like a frog. Cutting the rope is just holding your finger on the touchscreen smartphone. 

The Russian newspaper "Vedomosti" attempted to estimate the amount earned by the studio ZeptoLab, from sales of this game. From the date of the appearance of the game in AppStore (October 4, 2010), Bole counted 45 million downloads, including 9 million downloads of the paid version (for 99 cents for the regular version and $ 1.99 for HD versions). On average, developers get 21% to 35% of sales, leaving the rest of the company and publisher of Apple («apple company" takes 30% and the rest of the publisher.) By conservative estimates, on sales Cut the Rope in the AppStore on the company earned $ 1.89 to $ 3.15 million. 
In the Android Market situation is somewhat different, the studio does not need a publisher and get 71% of revenues. Google does not advertise the number of downloads, but according to approximate estimates, they have already reached a figure of 50 000 - 100 000. According to the results of July, the company ZeptoLab can get $ 1 million in revenue from sales of its games in Android Market. 

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