According to the latest data, App Store, despite fewer applications and downloads, still generates twice as much profit as Google Play. Moreover, in the App Store twice as many developers who earned the first million from the released application. This week, Apple published a report in which she told how much money developers have earned for iOS for the entire existence of the App Store. Recall that Apple introduced the App Store with iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2. 0 in 2008. At the time of launch, there were about 500 applications in the store.

For the entire life of the App Store, Apple paid $ 70 billion to application developers. Interestingly, last year this figure was only 50 billion. Apple notes that in 2016, the number of applications downloaded increased by more than 70%. Among the most popular applications were Pokemon GO, Super Mario Run, CancerAid, SPACE by THIX, Zones for Training, Exercise Intensity, Vanido, Ace Tennis and Havenly.

Games and entertainment are still the highest grossing categories of the App Store. At the same time, "Lifestyle" and "Health and fitness" over the past year showed an increase of more than 70%, and the fastest growing category is "Photo and video" with almost 90% annual growth.

"People love applications, and our customers download them in record amounts. 70 billion dollars, earned by the developers, just mind-blowing.

We are amazed by all the wonderful new applications that our developers create, and can not wait to see them next week at our worldwide developer conference, "said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing.

The company also noted that since subscriptions are now open to developers in all 25 categories of applications, the profit from active paid subscriptions for the year increased by 58%. Leaders in this area are Netflix, Hulu, Tastemade, Over and Enlight.