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发帖数: 1034 | 1 Posted Jan 8, 2015 by Natasha Lomas (@riptari)
It’s CES, which means Apple has just dropped its annual reminder that
plenty of folk won’t care a fig for all those non-iOS consumer electronics
that are currently getting manhandled in the Mojave desert.
Cupertino’s CES spirit crusher this year is a missive announcing that the
first week of January set a new global record for App Store billings, with
customers spending nearly half a billion dollars on apps and in-app
purchases. While New Year’s Day 2015 marked the “single biggest day ever
in App Store sales history”.
It also reveals that 2014 was a banner year for its App Store, with billings
rising 50 per cent and apps generating more than $10 billion in revenue for
developers over the year. How do you like them Apples, CES?
Apple singled out indie games for special praise in its missive — dubbing
it an “especially inspired segment”, and name checking ustwo for its much
lauded puzzler Monument Valley, Hipster Whale for Crossy Road, and Sirvo for
Threes!.
It also revealed it has now paid out a cumulative $25 billion to App Store
developers. The last time we heard this stat was in July 2014, when it
reported in its earnings call shelling out a cumulative $20 billion to
developers — so it’s added some $5 billion in rounded payouts since then.
In July Apple said nearly half its developer payout had been paid in the
past 12 months.
For a little comparative context, at its developer conference last June,
Google said it had paid out $5 billion to Android app developers with wares
on its Play Store in the 12 months since its I/O 2013 conference.
Returning to Apple, back in June 2013, at its annual WWDC event, Cupertino
had paid out $10 billion to developers, a figure that rose to $13 billion by
October 2013 — when the number of apps on its store pushed past the one
million mark. At last year’s WWDC Apple said the total number of iOS apps
had reached 1.2 million.
Also today Apple was keen to talk up how many jobs its technologies have
contributed to the U.S. economy — with a dedicated section on its website
laying claim to more than 1.02 million U.S. jobs being created or supported
by Apple technologies, some 627,000 of which it attributes to the iOS
ecosystem.
Apple also notes that $8 billion of its cumulative payout to iOS app makers
has gone to U.S.-based developers. |
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