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Boy, were the holidays good for the App Store?

Or maybe the App Store was good for the holidays. However one wants to say it, records were set

according to a press release from Apple. Quoting that, App Store customers

worldwide set new spending records over the holidays

wrapping up a record-breaking year. App Store spending top 1.22 billion dollars

between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Customers also spent over $322 million on New Year's Day 2019 alone,

setting a new single day record that helped drive services revenue to an all-time

record in the holiday quarter according to the company Apple Services set new

all-time records and multiple categories as the release, including

the App Store, Apple Music, Cloud Services, Apple Pay, and the App Store's Search

Ad Business. Gaming and Self-Care were the most popular categories of app

downloads and subscriptions during the holidays according to Apple. One assumes

gaming was so popular because without games we might have actually had to talk to our families

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