App Store program downloads 40 billion developers earn 70 billion

Beijing March 4 news, Apple today announced that users have downloaded over 40 billion programs, alone in 2012 nearly 20 billion downloads. App Store has more than 500 million active account December 21106.html "> Monthly program downloads over 2 billion, breaking the record.Apple developer community has developed more than 775,000 programs, Apple has paid developers to more than 7 billion Dollars.

Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, said in a statement: "The past year was an incredible year for the iOS developer community, who have made $ 7 billion through the App Store We are constantly investing in providing them with the best ecosystems that allow them to create the most innovative processes globally. "

In 2012, Imangi Studios and its co-founder team produced The Temple Run 2, which has been downloaded over 75 million times. Backflip Studios and Supercell, two emerging game development studios, developed the free games Dragon Valley and Clash of Clans "together bring in 10 million dollars in revenue. In addition, applications such as Uber, Flipboard, HotelTonight, AirBnB have attracted millions of iOS users.

Keith Shepherd, co-founder of Imangi Studios, said: "We were shocked by the launch of Temple Run 2 in 2012. We simply wanted to create fun and easy-to-play games, When it entered the App Store, the game took off, and in the past year Temple Run was over 75 million times downloaded on iOS. "

So far, App Store has provided 775,000 programs for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, covering 155 countries around the world. 300,000 of them are for iPad. Users can choose from 23 categories of programs, including newspapers, magazines, games, business, news, sports, health and fitness, travel.

It should be noted that Apple announced 40 billion downloads do not include duplicate downloads and upgrades.