A nano banana to conquer the application store. As TechCrunch reports, Gemini’s mobile platform has just destroyed Chatgpt by becoming the most unloaded application in Apple’s kiosk in five countries, including the United States and France.
In the heart of this success, Nano Banana, the Google image generator that is based on the Gemini 2.5 Flash model. Last August, the tool quickly seduced Internet users. Users can now make complex changes more easily and create realistic images. In total, more than 500 million images were generated by Nano Banana.
A nose to Elon Musk
As a result, the platform registered a 45% increase in its downloads in September, according to the data provided by appfigues. And, although the month is not even finished, the Gemini application has already registered 12.6 million downloads in September, compared to 8.7 million in August.
Prowess, therefore, allowed him to pass Gemini from the third to the first place of the most unloaded applications in the App Store. In Google Play, Gemini went from 26th place in general applications in the United States on September 8 in second place on Monday, September 15.
A beautiful nose for Elon Musk. In August, the South African billionaire accused Apple of promoting the chatgpt in its application store, to the detriment of its competitors. “Apple behaves in a way that makes it impossible for any AI company that is not OpenAi to reach the first place in the App Store, which constitutes an unequivocal violation of antimonopoly laws,” he told Elon Musk in his social network, and added that his company IA, XAI, would initiate “immediately legal procedures.”
Apple had quickly retaliate. The App Store is “designed to be fair and impartial,” replied to a Bloomberg Apple spokesman, and adds that thousands of applications are offered “through classifications, algorithmic recommendations and lists organized by experts according to objective criteria.”
This is not the first time that an AI company surpassed Chatgpt. Chinese Chatbot Deepseek dethrone the chatgpt last January on the blind and the American perplexity rose to the first place in the APP Store of India in July.
Source: BFM TV
