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04-26-2016, 07:45 PM
China takes top spot in iOS app downloads — and jumps to 2nd in total App Store revenue
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China just beat Japan to take second position for global revenue from iPhone and iPad apps, a new report says.
The U.S. is still the king of iOS app revenue generation in Q1 2016, according to App Annie (http://files.appannie.com.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/App-Annie-Index-Market-Q1-2016-EN.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdVellUSXdabVU1WVdReCIsInQ iOiJDcndmQnQ0Yll4UEFScmozQmRuTTRrUzZlSURCdmJJRnFkK 1ZrQWNTa1h3NCsrRTB4RDNlb3FhdStHMFVUYUtaM1V1TDVpZHF lNXc5NmJcL1czaWhydWdERWhPWEEwbkMwSkM4SlwvblphYURBP SJ9)*(PDF link). However, China’s snapping at its heels, with a 2.2 times growth year-on-year that made it move up a **tch since January (http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-2015-retrospective/).
In terms of the sheer number of app downloads, China took the top spot last year (http://blog.appannie.com/china-surpasses-united-states-ios-downloads/), overtaking the U.S. That’s thanks to China’s huge number of smartphone owners as well as Apple’s big screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, say the App Annie analysts.
But as any startup will tell you, getting people to download apps and making money off them are two different things. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/china-is-number-two-for-apple/)
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China just beat Japan to take second position for global revenue from iPhone and iPad apps, a new report says.
The U.S. is still the king of iOS app revenue generation in Q1 2016, according to App Annie (http://files.appannie.com.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/App-Annie-Index-Market-Q1-2016-EN.pdf?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdVellUSXdabVU1WVdReCIsInQ iOiJDcndmQnQ0Yll4UEFScmozQmRuTTRrUzZlSURCdmJJRnFkK 1ZrQWNTa1h3NCsrRTB4RDNlb3FhdStHMFVUYUtaM1V1TDVpZHF lNXc5NmJcL1czaWhydWdERWhPWEEwbkMwSkM4SlwvblphYURBP SJ9)*(PDF link). However, China’s snapping at its heels, with a 2.2 times growth year-on-year that made it move up a **tch since January (http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-2015-retrospective/).
In terms of the sheer number of app downloads, China took the top spot last year (http://blog.appannie.com/china-surpasses-united-states-ios-downloads/), overtaking the U.S. That’s thanks to China’s huge number of smartphone owners as well as Apple’s big screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, say the App Annie analysts.
But as any startup will tell you, getting people to download apps and making money off them are two different things. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/china-is-number-two-for-apple/)
More about Smartphones (http://mashable.com/category/smartphones/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Android Apps (http://mashable.com/category/android-apps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Iphone (http://mashable.com/category/iphone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Japan (http://mashable.com/category/japan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and China (http://mashable.com/category/china/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Zjkm-pcEuIo