AppleInsider Staff
In the midst of hype for new gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show, Apple on Tuesday issued a press release to announce that sales from the App Store topped $10 billion in 2013, with $1 billion spent by customers in December alone.
App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in the month of December, Apple revealed, which made it the most successful month in App Store history. To date, developers have earned $15 billion from the App Store.
"We'd like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. "The lineup of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014."
Apple highlighted a number of applications that take advantage of changes in the new iOS 7 mobile operating system, singling out developers Evernote, Yahoo, AirBnB, OpenTable, Tumblr, Pinterest and American Airlines for "bringing content to the forefront while increasing the overall efficiency and performance of their apps."
In addition, another host of specific applications and developers were also featured by Apple in Tuesday's announcement:
- Ellen DeGeneres' Heads Up
- ProtoGeo's Moves
- Simon Filip's Afterlight
- Kevin Ng's Impossible Road
Successful apps from international developers
Developers to watch in 2014
- Duolingo (United States)
- Simogo (Sweden)
- Frogmind (U.K.)
- Plain Vanilla Corp (Iceland)
- Atypical Games (Romania)
- Lemonista (China)
- BASE (Japan)
- Savage Interactive (Australia)
Thomas Sibilly
Andrew Orr
Wesley Hilliard
Marko Zivkovic
Malcolm Owen
Andrew O'Hara
Christine McKee
20 Comments
Ellen's Heads Up game is fun! I love the timing of this announcement. I think Apple has issued press releases during CES in previous years. Apple doesn't need to attend CES... they're already the talk of the town :)
But android!
Waiting for someone to take the total paid out and divide that by the number of Apps to conclude developers aren't making any money from iOS.
[quote name="Michael Scrip" url="/t/161468/apple-announces-app-store-sales-topped-10-billion-in-2013#post_2454468"]Apple doesn't need to attend CES... they're already the talk of the town :)[/quote] Bingo. Even though they're not attending people are still comparing everything to what Apple currently has or what Apple "might" have.
[quote name="sog35" url="/t/161468/apple-announces-app-store-sales-topped-10-billion-in-2013#post_2454476"]I expect this number to TRIPLE once iTV takes off $30B in annual content sales is not out of the question. A possibility ANALylist are simply ignoring. [/quote] Really? I can't imagine buying many apps for my TV. My phone is a personal device that I carry with me all the time and like to try new things with. With television I want some key channels and shows and that's it. Obviously without knowing what Apples solution (if they have one) looks like I can't predict my or others behaviour with any certainty, but I'm very sceptical of that ($20bn) kind of volume.