10% of U.S. consumers now use Apple Arcade weekly according to MIDiA Research. This usage figure nearly matches that of Nintendo Switch…
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CCP crackdown threatens to remove X, Facebook, Instagram from Apple’s App Store in China
The Chinese Communist Party push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from Apple’s App Store in China…
Morgan Stanley: Apple’s App Store revenue growth slowed in June
According to a research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, growth in Apple’s App Store revenue slowed down in June, potentially…
Bank of America: Apple seeing ‘modest’ re-acceleration in App Store, China
Apple’s stock price fell early in Tuesday trading as Bank of Americas’ investment arm said that Apple is seeing a “modest” re-acceleration…
Apple App Store net revenue grew 16.1% year-over-year in September
The net revenue for the Apple App Store grew 16.1% year-over-year in September according to data from Sensor Tower data shared…
Analyst: App Store could provide upside to Apple’s stock; target price $180
As Apple stock bounced on Tuesday, a Wall Street analyst says that Apple’s App Store could provide upside to the company’s September-quarter…
Apple makes more from games than Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Activision combined
Apple is one of the world’s largest video game companies, making more from games than Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Activision combined…
Apple App Store is projected to generate $41.5 billion in first half of 2021, nearly double Google Play’s revenue
Apple’s App Store is projected to generate $41.5 billion in consumer spending globally from in-app purchases, subscriptions, and…
Apple pulled in at least $100 million in App Store revenue from Fortnite
Apple generated at least $100 million in revenue (likely much more) from Fortnite’s 30-month run on their App Store, according to testimony…
Google follows Apple, cuts store fee from 30% to 15% on first $1 million developers earn
As it is wont to do, Google is once again following Apple by reducing the commission it charges developers that sell digital goods…
Average iPhone game requires 76% more storage space since 2016
As developers continue to take advantage of iPhone storage space gains to launch bigger and better games while adding more content to their…
YouTube, Tinder, and Disney+ top U.S. consumer spending for iOS subscription apps
YouTube, Tinder, and Disney+ topped U.S. consumer spending for iOS subscription apps in 2020. Worldwide consumer spending grew…
Apple’s App Store generated more than double the revenue of Google’s Play Store in 2020
Apple’s App Store has once again captured the bulk of the revenue generated between the two major platforms, iOS and the derivative Android…
Apple purges thousands of apps from China App Store amid CCP pressure
Apple is purging thousands of videogame apps from the App Store in China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on such content…
Apple’s App Store generated 2X as much revenue as Google’s Play Store in Q3 2020
Apple’s App Store generated nearly twice as as much revenue as Google’s Play Store in Q3 2020, despite Android holding 74.44% market share…
Should Apple open more of their services to ‘other’ platforms?
A tiered Apple services bundle has been rumored for years, and the offering may finally be ready to launch. This week, the compnay…
Ahead of Apple AirTags, Tile launches new ‘Premium Protect’ plan
Ahead of Apple’s expected AirTags ramp up later this year, Tile is planning to launch a new “Premium Protect” service that will provide…
Epic Games tries again to get back into Apple’s App Store
Epic Games has made another appeal to a judge to block Apple from removing “Fortnite” from Apple’s App Store in what the game maker calls…
Quibi has all the earmarks of a flop
Quibi, the streaming service that promised to serve “quick bites” of content designed to be consumed while on-the-go, has all the earmarks of a flop …
iPad app downloads see first positive quarterly growth in four years
Driven by a surge in use and adoption of the device during the COVID-19 pandemic, quarterly first-time downloads of apps for iPad surpassed 1.1 billion…
Popular VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly harvesting user data
Sensor Tower has been secretly collecting data from millions of people who have installed popular VPN and ad-blocking apps…
One big beneficiary of the coronavirus lockdown: Apple’s App Store
The coronavirus outbreak is spurring increased use of Apple’s App Store and mobile gaming as people stay home spending more time on their iPhones and iPads…
Vine creator’s new Byte app debuts at No.1 on Apple’s App Store
Byte, a new video-sharing app released Friday, reboots the deprecated Vine video-sharing service. Byte app creator Dom Hofmann co-founded Vine…
2019 U.S. subscription app revenue jumped 21% across the top 100 apps
New data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower indicates U.S. subscription app revenue grew by 21% last year from the $3.8 billion generated by the…
Disney+ grosses nearly $100 million on mobile in its first two months
The Disney+ app has now been downloaded nearly 41 million times across the App Store and Google Play and has generated an estimated $97.2 million in user spending…
Apple’s App Store again destroys Google Play in global app Christmas spending
Apple’s App Store accounted for 70 percent of spending between the two platforms at $193 million, growing about 16 percent Y/Y…
Chirp debuts a faster, feature-filled Twitter app for Apple Watch
Now redesigned for watchOS 6, the new version of Chirp includes a rebuilt timeline feature…
‘Call of Duty: Mobile’ obliterates records with 100 million downloads in first week
PUBG, Fortnite and Electronic Arts’ “Apex Legends” scored 26.3 million, 22.5 million and 25 million respectively in their first week of release…
Apple adjusts algorithm that stacked App Store search results with their own apps
Top spots in App Store search results are some of the most fought over real estate in the online economy….
Morgan Stanley: App Store is seeing very strong revenue growth ahead of a slew of new products and services
Net revenue for the App Store grew 25.8% year-on-year in August, up from the 18.9% year-on-year comparison for July, making it the strongest since February 2018, and the third-largest month-to-month acceleration in year-on-year growth since early 2015…
Analyst claims Apple’s App Store growth is slowing dramatically
Apple stock will not rise due to slowing sales growth in its App Store business, according to Goldman Sachs…
Top Apple’s App Store developers are earning 64% more than Google Play’s
We analyzed quarterly consumer spending in apps from the top 100 publishers on the App Store and Google Play between Q1 2014 and 2019…
Apple cracks down on screen-time and parental-control apps
Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental-control apps…
Apple’s App Store revenue projected to more than double by 2023
Global revenue on Apple’s platform is projected to reach $96 billion in the next five years…
iPhone owners in the US spent an average of $79 on apps in 2018, up 36% YOY
Apple’s push to get developers to build subscription-based apps is now having a notable impact…
Apple’s App Store revenue surged on Black Friday to $169.3 million globally, setting a single-day record
$117.3 million was spent by App Store users outside the United States on Black Friday, for a global total of $169.3 million, up 18.4 percent from 2017…
Why Google is willing to pay Apple $12 billion per year
Apple has a 44% market share of U.S. smartphones and about a 12% share of PCs….
Fortnite earns $100 million in its first 90 days on Apple’s iOS platform
aving brought in more than $25 million during its first month on mobile…
Apple’s App Store is destroying Google Play in services and subscriptions
Apple’s U.S. customers installed 45 new iPhone apps in 2017, a growth of 10 percent over last year…
Fortnite for iOS hits $15 million revenue in just 20 days
Earlier this week, Epic Games threw open the gates to its previously invite-only mobile version of Fortnite…
Apple’s App Store revenue on track to eclipse global box office revenue this year
For years, the iPhone has been Apple’s cash cow, propelling the company to record revenues and transforming…
Why Apple’s App Store is good business for your enterprise
At least 69 iOS developers managed to make their first million-dollars in app revenue last year