Mussolini iPhone Apps is Italy’s Second Best
Any guesses on what could be the second most downloaded iPhone apps on Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy is? It has to be collection of speeches by Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini.
The application that is for the iPhone is now easily available at the Apple store online. It is really affordable at 79 EUR cents which is approx $1.1. The number of downloads that iMussolini enjoyed has even surpassed the video game called Avatar that is based on the blockbuster movie. This has been announced by the Apple Inc’s Italian iTunes store. The only one to beat this application is a wallpaper application, which won the race of the most downloaded apps.
There are around 100 speeches of the so called Duce’s speech that is now available for the iPhone. History has it that Mussolini the dictator ruled Italy right from 1922 till the time of his death which was in 1945 when the WWII ended. Alessandra Mussolini his granddaughter is now an ally and a politician of the current Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi’s government.
The application creator Luigi Marino who is only 25 years said, “It’s a delicate page in our history that should never be forgotten. I am stunned by the success of the application. I’ve had complaints, but also lots of positive feedback asking me to keep updating.”
Marino is a local from Naples he now gets 70% of the proceeds that this application makes. The application will soon cross the 1000 mark. When it was first released it has only 55 downloads.
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