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MEXICO CITY (Expansión) –
App Store is 10 years old, but since its birth, hundreds of game developers and apps have been born and aimed to reach as many downloads within the platform.
According to the study of Annie App in figures, these years have meant 170,000 million applications downloaded from July 2010 to December 2017. In addition to the 130,000 million dollars of revenue for developers, which experienced their strongest growth between 2015 and 2017.
Other data to highlight, compiled by Sensor Tower Intelligence App specify that about 30 000 applications were able to position themselves in the first place downloads, where the most weeks remains On the US market podium was Facebook Messenger who managed to be in first place for 217 weeks.
Worldwide, WhatsApp beat Facebook Messenger, since it was about 250 weeks in the first place. In terms of paid apps, the winner was Minecraft, an application developed by Mojang and currently owned by Microsoft, which stayed 121 weeks in the first place.
Apps and humanity
At launch, the App Store had 500 applications, today the average number of applications available on a mobile phone is 40 applications by computer. Specifically, Mexico reported in 2017 that the average user was using 37 apps on his iPhone, so that the use of apps continues to grow steadily, according to the App Annie's study .
In addition, after the launch in 2009, the function "shopping in the app" was collected in a year, a billion dollars and only in 2017, about 4,000 million mobile devices have generated 81,000 million dollars, this according to Sensor Tower Intelligence App.
According to Apple, 28,000 apps offer subscription services and 95% increased their subscriptions via the App Store, compared to June of last year. Significant growth that has been detected is that of medical applications, a milestone since the launch of Apple Watch, as of 2015, this type of applications has increased by 75%.
Another remarkable fact is that since the launch of ARKit 1.0, there has been a marked growth in Augmented Reality applications and by July 2018, there are just over 3,000 applications.
Applications will be more expensive in the future
According to the study of App Annie, by 2022, China will be the market that will generate the most downloads in the app stores. By focusing on the device, by 2022, the average cost of devices for applications will reach $ 25.65, an increase from the average of 20.94 in 2017.
The number of downloads should exceed 79.3 applications downloaded by the device to 119.5. While the US market will grow from 11.3 applications to 10.3 applications installed by a mobile device.
The increase in appliance spending in more mature markets such as the United States, South Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and cities like China will be the main driving overall increases in spending on the App Store.
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