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Title: App Store broke its sales record on New Year’s Day Post by: HCK on January 09, 2015, 09:00:18 pm App Store broke its sales record on New Year’s Day
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Appy New Year! (Sorry, I had to.) Apple announced (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/08App-Store-Rings-in-2015-with-New-Records.html) that January 1, 2015 was “the single biggest day ever in App Store sales history,” with customers spending nearly half a million dollars on both apps and in-app purchases on that day alone. </p><p> Apple’s press release, which came out on Thursday, went on to boast of record-breaking sales in 2014 as well. App Store sales rose 50 percent in 2014—and that’s just in paid apps and in-app purchases, not including free apps and upgrades—and generated more than $10 billion in revenue for developers. </p><p> Taking a look back, 2014 was an awesome year for apps. Macworld’s favorite apps of the year (http://www.macworld.com/article/2859680/the-macworld-staffs-very-favorite-ios-apps-of-2014.html) really show the range of what came out: Apps that take advantage of Apple Pay and easy checkout, HealthKit apps that communicate with the iPhone’s M7 or M8 chip to deliver your personal health data in an easy-to-understand format, and third-party keyboard apps all made our cut. Plus, some of the games released in 2014 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2862958/the-20-best-ios-games-of-2014.html) could rival the quality of console titles, not to mention the amazing puzzlers (http://www.macworld.com/article/2863436/our-favorite-free-ios-games-of-2014.html) and titles from other genres. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2867034/app-store-broke-its-sales-record-on-new-years-day.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: App Store broke its sales record on New Year’s Day (http://www.macworld.com/article/2867034/app-store-broke-its-sales-record-on-new-years-day.html#tk.rss_all) |