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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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0:00.0 | This is MacOS Ken. |
0:08.8 | A stellar first quarter for Apple's App Store. |
0:12.0 | Apple may Sherlock your password manager, and the Mac Observer Show is a go. |
0:18.1 | It is Friday, the 7th of June 2024. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco S. Ken brought to you |
0:28.9 | by yours truly and sponsored by Penn Chalet selling exquisite fountain pens for over 10 years |
0:35.7 | with special offers for MacoS Ken listeners at pencilay.com slash Maco-Sken. This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through |
0:49.7 | Patreon. Find out more in that your support at Patreon. What's happening in Apple's App Store in Europe is apparently happening the world over. |
1:06.0 | I told you earlier this week of new numbers from Evercore analyst Ahmed Darienani that had revenue for Apple's App Store in the EU up 25% last month versus the same month a year earlier. |
1:20.0 | While his note centered on the App Store's revenue increase in the wake of Apple's Digital |
1:24.6 | Markets Act compliance, I wondered what it was that was driving that increase. |
1:31.2 | Turns out it's happening everywhere. |
1:33.0 | Apple Insider has new first quarter numbers from Sensor Towers Digital Market Index report, |
1:40.0 | covering both Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store, the report says spending on |
1:45.6 | apps is up globally, rising 9.5% year on year. As it tends to do, most of the revenue and revenue growth went to Apple. |
1:57.6 | On a platform specific basis, says the piece, IOS continued to rake in the most revenue overall with a total of $24.6 billion in |
2:06.8 | transactions for the quarter up 11.5% year on year. By comparison the Google Play Store saw overall |
2:16.0 | revenue grow to 11.2 billion up 5.3 percent. As also tends to be the way, Google Play had many more downloads than the App Store, though its downloads were actually down. |
2:32.0 | By Sensor Towers estimate estimate the App Store saw |
2:34.6 | downloads of 8.4 billion up 2.1% year on year. That was the App Store's best |
2:42.0 | quarter since the second quarter of 2020 according to |
2:45.5 | Center Tower. Meanwhile the Google Play Store saw 25.6 billion downloads in the |
2:51.4 | first quarter about three times the number in the |
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