App store revenue

Jenxi Jenxi
24 July 2014
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Benedict Evans wrote about app Store revenues.

  • Google said it paid out $5bn to developers from Google IO in 2013 to Google IO in 2014 (a little over 13 months)
  • Apple said it has paid out 20bntodevelopersintotalbytheendoftheJune2014quarter,andatWWDCJune2013itgaveafigureof20bn to developers in total by the end of the June 2014 quarter, and at WWDC June 2013 it gave a figure of 10bn paid to developers (at the June 2013 earnings call a month later it then said it had paid out 11bn).Sointhelast12months,itpaidoutroughly11bn). So in the last 12 months, it paid out roughly 10bn.

No surprise which platform app developers would want to go for.