Google is
destroying Apple in the app
game — except where it counts
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Android is dominating app stores but
Apple is still beating
Google in one extremely important metric: revenue.
Cuperti** made nearly twice as much money from its App Store in 2017 as
Google did from
Google Play, despite seeing only a fraction of the downloads, according to
a new report out today from App Annie.
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Just how big is the difference?
Apple made $34 billion on 29 billion app downloads in 2016, according to the company's data. Google, by comparison, made $10 billion on 63 billion downloads in 2016.*
Put a**ther way,
Apple made
more than three times as much money as
Google with
less than half as many downloads.*
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