Facebook the most downloaded Apple Store app

Facebook, the most downloaded application in the Apple Store

On the 11th July 1945 marks the tenth anniversary of the App Store for the iOS operating system . For this reason, App Annie's experts have made a report revealing which are the most popular apps from 2010 to date.

Facebook and Google dominate statistics in terms of the most downloaded iOS apps of all time ] The first position is occupied by Facebook, while its Messenger application is number two. The podium is completed by Google with YouTube. In addition, it is ranked number six with Google Maps. Instagram is number four and WhatsApp is number five. The rest of the top 10 is completed by Snapchat, Skype, WeChat and QQ. According to the report, Facebook has been downloaded 700 million times in the world, between July 2010 and May 2018.

However, the main statistics regarding consumer spending They show a very strong image different. Only one of the applications mentioned above is listed in this top 10, Tencent QQ. In this segment, the first place is occupied by Netflix, the second Spotify and the third Pandora Radio . Tencent Video, Tinder, Line, iQIYI, HBO Now and Kwai appear in the rest of the list

To make this report, we have used a large amount of data and comparisons over the last 10 years. For clarity, is separated by applications, games, developers and countries with the most downloads . For example, the most downloaded game in history is Candy Crush . Although this was out of the mind for a few years, at the time it was a phenomenon of such magnitude that even rehabilitation clinics had to be open. Likewise, in the report there is a variant of this data that goes in the direction of total expenditure by users, and that is where the champion is Clash of Clans l. Finnish application that remains more current than ever. 19659006] With regard to the most successful developers, Electronic Arts has consolidated itself as the brain of video games in the world and for this reason it occupies the first place with the most many downloads with their titles. On the other hand, the Chinese Tencent remained first (while EA is eighth) in the consumption expenditure . In addition, it occupies the second of the downloads, with which in the total sum, they would be the winners.

Finally, in the country of the article remains relatively similar in both number of downloads as in dollars spent . In fact, from from first to fourth place the countries repeat themselves as follows: United States, China, Japan and the United Kingdom . They also appear in both top 10 France; Germany, Canada and Australia . They only change Italy and Russia in number of downloads by Hong Kong and Taiwan in dollars spent.

One thing to keep in mind, the iOS App Store currently has more than 2 million applications that have been downloaded more than 170 billion times. Nearly 10,000 of these applications generated $ 1 million or more in revenue .