Angry Birds addicts crash GetJar site
12MB of pig-squashing action clogs servers
Android users eager to play Rovio's free Angry Birds game have toppled the servers at GetJar.
Interested parties got an email from Rovio saying that the beta was finally over, and that an advertising-supported version of the irate avian vs larcenous porcine game would be available shortly - initially at GetJar and soon on the Android Marketplace.
While the latter is still bereft of violent birdy fun, the former has folded under the pressure. Those attempting to download the 150-level, 12MB game are being told to give the mobile site a go with this garbled message:
"Dear visitors, GetJar website is experiencing temporary technical problems due to a totally undexpected[sic] high demand for the new free game Angry Birds."
Needless to say the mobile GetJar site is similarly overloaded, but even if you can't get the game downloaded for a bit of Friday afternoon research things should clear over the weekend. Perhaps by Monday we can all be lording it over those poor souls sporting Windows phones - the only platform on which the game doesn't yet run. ®
COMMENTS
only remaining platform?
I guess Bill doesn't recognize some of the other players on the market.... where's my angry birds for Blackberry?
Clusterfook
And this is WHY we use Google Android Market, with it’s proper infrastructure. Google must be laughing their ass off at this total clusterfuck….
only remaining platform?
Can't seem to find the PC version. Or are computers (and consoles?) suddenly not gaming platforms?
Ah well, back to stomping Giant Death Robots over Japan in CIV5 then...
(terminator, death robot - if not a particularly giant one.)
Doesn't work
Got the download yesterday installed fine but doesn't run properly on my xperia x10 app loads but just a blank screen. Presumably fine on a lot of phones but not impressed with my experience on android with angry birds.
Still the ultimate time waster on the iPad.
83% of stats are made up on the spot
So, where are your stats from?
mine are from goldman sachs.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/01/android_wins_sm.html
while android *IS* growning in marketshare, it is doing so at the expense of symbian, non-android linux, and Windows mobile, NOT Blackberry. Blackberry marketshare is unchanged in the last year (a marketshare that beats iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile).
