I thought @tonyexpress and I were the last ones playing pokemongo, mainly because we're lazy and there's a pokestop in our backyard and pokemon pop up around our house several times a day. Guess I was wrong. Apparently it's been the top-grossing app in the Play Store this entire week.
The Quiet, Steady Dominance of Pokémon Go - Wired
Two years ago today, a studio called Niantic released a game with a novel proposition: Go outside. Point your smartphone at the real world. Catch some monsters. Within a day, Pokémon Go was at the top of every app store chart. Within 200 days, players had spent a billion dollars on in-game upgrades—the shortest time to reach that milestone by a wide margin. In the summer of 2016, you couldn’t walk two blocks without running into, sometimes literally, a person in hot Pidgey pursuit. And then it stopped. Or so it seemed.
