Apple for the day

Brian Chen has an article in The New York Times about Apple's app sales:

Apple continues to make billions of dollars from mobile apps sold in its App Store. The company said that, in 2014, billings from app sales rose fifty percent from the previous year, which results in roughly fifteen billion dollars in revenue for app developers and a five billion dollar cut for Apple.
Apple takes a thirty percent cut of each app sale made in its App Store. The five billion dollar sum is a tiny sliver for Apple, which makes nearly two hundred billion in annual sales, but it is still a considerable sum for providing a storefront for developers to sell their apps.
By comparison, Google’s Android is the largest mobile operating system in the world, but its app store, Google Play, generates far less money than Apple’s. That’s partly because Apple’s iPhone customers are wealthier and spend more money than people who own Android phones. App Annie, an analytics firm that tracks mobile app sales, said that, in the third quarter of 2014, Apple’s App Store revenue was sixty percent higher than revenue generated from Google Play.
App Annie said it had not yet released numbers for annual sales for Google Play. In June of 2014, Google said it had paid out five billion dollars to developers in the previous twelve months. Gina Johnson, a Google spokeswoman, said the company did not have newer statistics to share.
Apple said its App Store has over a million apps for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices. Google Play hosts just under two million apps, according to App Annie.

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