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Kevin M. Mansour
Kevin M. Mansour

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Despite fewer users, the App Store revenue is nearly twice as large as Google Play

Today it is known that the Android system is the dominant system in the field of smartphones around the world with control of nearly 85% of the market, but despite this major control that suggests that the revenues of the Google Play Store are greater than its competitor, the App Store, the reality appears different as that IPhone users spend a lot more money on apps than their Android counterparts.

According to the data of the current third quarter of 2020, it seems that the revenue of the App Store for Apple products continues to grow, as the store earned 19 billion US dollars in revenue, about twice the Google Play Store revenue of 10.3 billion US dollars during the same time period.

Although the returns of the two stores seem completely contradictory in terms of revenues from each user (users of the Play Store are many times more, but they spend much less money), in reality there is significant and remarkable growth for each of the stores in reality. Compared to a year ago, App Store revenue increased by 31%, while Play Store revenue increased slightly more than 33%, as total store revenues increased from about $ 22.2 billion to $ 29.3 billion in the third quarter that ended only days ago.

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In terms of total revenue, the list of the most revenue-generating apps included predictable names such as YouTube, Tinder, and Netflix, in addition to others like TikTok, which continues to thrive despite banning threats, and Disney +, which has been experiencing significant growth since its launch months ago, as well as BIGO Live and the storyboard app. Japanese (manga) Piccoma.

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