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Apple's App Store Still Number One in Revenue Despite Google Play Growth
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But the puck might be moving so slowly in that direction that the game will be over (developer bankrupt), before the puck ever gets there.
So Google Play is dominant in Korea, competitive in Japan, has a modest footprint in the US, and is negligible everywhere else. I'm not at all surprised at Korea (Samsung territory), Japan (still no iPhone on the leading carrier), or the US (Android has modest but non-trivial usage share), but I didn't realize Google Play was so weak everywhere else.
No, genius. You need a rooted Android phone, same thing as a jailbroken iPhone.
Piracy aside - not here to debate that - but you don't need to be rooted in order to install non Google Play Store apps. Just a simple checkbox in settings to allow non market apps.
You do realize this isn't good for Apple right?
Google's up 67%
Apple's up 15%
Google's catching up...
Yes, and the puck in the smartphone market is clearly going to China. Unfortunately for Google and Apple, neither of them has a business strategy that can work in Chinese mass market, which is clearly being taken over by no-name Android devices that are too cheap for Apple to compete with and have been totally stripped of all meaningful Google services.
Have you actually ever used the GP store and compared it to the App Store? The layout, navigation, searching and visual flair is vastly superior in the GP store. My opinion, but as I've used both, the difference is night and day.
Well of course! Most of the Apps on Google Play are garbage. iOS is where the quality Apps are, and that's why people part with money for them.
Android's ahead in terms of quantity, but it's the quality that really matters. And that's why Apple will ALWAYS win.
Google Play's apps aren't garbage, they're just as good, if not better. As you can see by the first chart, Google is catching up, fast.
Does this meet your "Quality Requirement"?
Fart Machine Extreme - The ultimate fart experience
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fart-machine-extreme-ultimate/id359651573?mt=8
My point was there is nothing "smart" about avoiding the GP store. What about not using that marketplace is smart? And don't say "viruses" or "malware". While yes, there is a very isolated smattering of infected apps, they are generally pulled well in advance of the reports that they exist.
The fact of the matter is that the most high quality apps exist on both platforms and oftentimes, what costs money on the app store can be had for free on the GP store. Why would I ever pay money for something when I can have it for free? To me, that's the definition of NOT being smart.
bingo. going from nothing (0) to something (1) is 100% growth. thus it's not surprising that google play may see a higher relative growth metric.
that this simple rule of math is overlooked may be a testament to the age of the posters on here. still in high school, etc..
Hah, no, that'd be you actually. OP is completely right. This is all bad news for Apple. Last year apple had over 70 percent of the smartphone market's profits, this year it's down to like 54 percent which is a staggering drop.
For a long time Apple was losing market share but still killing it on profits, now it's barely hanging on in terms of profits, has been totally blown out of the water in market share and now the same trend is showing in the App Store side of things.
I love my iPhone but you need to quit drinking the kool aide. Apple is in trouble.
Well of course! Most of the Apps on Google Play are garbage. iOS is where the quality Apps are, and that's why people part with money for them.
Android's ahead in terms of quantity, but it's the quality that really matters. And that's why Apple will ALWAYS win.
there is nothing in those graphs depicting quality over quantity. in fact, the appstore still has more apps than google play.
all they show is revenue and google play is increasing its sales at a higher rate compared to the appstore.
You know that more than half of Android devices doesn't have Google services, don't you?
Well of course! Most of the Apps on Google Play are garbage. iOS is where the quality Apps are, and that's why people part with money for them.
Android's ahead in terms of quantity, but it's the quality that really matters. And that's why Apple will ALWAYS win.
There are more apps on the App Store then on Google Play aren't there?
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Ah the shipped quote...so silly and funny how people cling to this metric.
HP shipped 1 million Touchpads ya know and sold 25k.
No, genius. You need a rooted Android phone, same thing as a jailbroken iPhone.
No, you don't need to root to install apps on Android, like you don't need to jailbreak to install on iOS
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In fact, there is no Play Store in China
Every time I read about "BUT THEYRE ONLY SHIPPED NUMBERS" I picture the poster imagining this warehouse filled with Android devices, collecting dust while every time an iPhone made it's magically built at the time of the request.
Still using the HP thing? Really? When you people will acknowledge that the "shipped not sold" is a silly argument?