Developers have made $70 billion on Apple's App StoreOver the last decade the App Store has earned developers over $70 billion but that's insignificant compared to how it's changed the world and our lives.
Ahead of the company's World Wide Developer Conference, WWDC 2017, set to kick off Monday, June 5, Apple is sharing some news about just how much all the apps made by those developers have been earning — a cool $70 billion since 2008. Even more impressive, that's up 70% in the last year alone.
The majority of that almost certainly comes from the iOS App Store, which launched on iPhone in 2008 and expanded to iPad in 2010. The macOS App Store followed shortly thereafter with the most recent, the tvOS App Store, joining the fold in 2015. (There's also a watchOS App Store but watchOS apps currently come included with iPhone apps.)
Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing:
People everywhere love apps and our customers are downloading them in record numbers. Seventy billion dollars earned by develop...
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Developers have made $70 billion on Apple's App Store
