iOS App Store Spending Grew 20% YoY to $18 Billion in Q3 2020

[CarpalMac]

These types of reports highlight the schism between what tech forum people think of Facebook (me included) and what the general public thinks of Facebook. Their products are absolutely dominant. Jeebus.

I said similar in the other thread about the Top Apps of the year. It goes to show that Apple playing the privacy angle is a nice soundbite for tech forum dwellers, but for the other 99.999% of users, they don't care.

Shame really, particularly as I would love to see Facebook starting to falter big time. I can only tolerate so much smugness.

 

[MacBH928]

more than half of that is spent on gaming...what are people paying for so much on games!?

 

[MacBH928]

To all who say Apple and Google don’t have market power and many other stores exist with the same policies: so why do you think these other stores were left off of this analysis?

How is this Apple's problem that there are no competitors in the market? They are not stopping you from making your own online store, smartphone, and OS.

 

[involuntarheely]

How is this Apple's problem that there are no competitors in the market? They are not stopping you from making your own online store, smartphone, and OS.

you must have not heard about the term "barriers to entry"

 

[MacBH928]

you must have not heard about the term "barriers to entry"

Whats the barriers to entry? FireFox was made when Explorer was dominant so was Safari, iphone+iOS was released when Nokia was dominant, Xbox from Microsoft was released when Nintendo and Sony Playstation was dominant, Google was made when Yahoo was dominant.

 

[Abazigal]

you must have not heard about the term "barriers to entry"

Except that Apple didn't put up those barriers.

The biggest problem today is that it is no longer enough to simply have a great smartphone. You need to have the whole supporting ecosystem, which is simply too much for any new entrant at this point. Even Samsung has taken to partnering with content partners such as Netflix, instead of building up their own services from scratch because they know a futile battle when they see one.

If anything, Google is the one to blame, because they are the ones giving away their OS and services for free, effectively sucking all the oxygen out of the room for any new competitor. After all, Apple has just 15% market share worldwide, so there should be a large slice of the pie left for everyone else.

 

[I7guy]

you must have not heard about the term "barriers to entry"

Like what...learning something and a few bucks?