Number of Apps In App Store Declined For the First Time Last Year (fortune.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Friday April 6, 2018 @10:00PM from the there's-a-first-time-for-everything dept.

According to new data from the analytics company Appfigures, the total number of apps in the App Store declined for the first time last year. "Appfigures notes that just 755,000 apps were released for iOS last year, a 29% drop from 2016," reports Fortune. "In contrast, 1.5 million apps were released for Android last year, marking a 17% year-over-year increase." From the report: Over the course of the year, the number of apps in the store declined from 2.2 million to 2.1 million, marking the first time the store had fewer apps at the end of the year than it did in the beginning. The reason for that change is likely Apple's decision to remove older apps from the store that were not being updated regularly, The Verge notes. Last year, Apple removed apps that were not built on 64-bit architecture, something necessary for them to work on newer iPhone models.

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Android Over IOS by Anonymous Coward · 2018-04-06 22:49 · Score: 1, Insightful

I'm a mobile app developer with 9 apps in the Play Store... I refused to put any apps in the Apple Store because of their corrupt policies such as taking %40 of all profits from apps and the limitation of requiring an Apple machine to compile on seems ridiculous to me. Therefore I decided to NEVER release an app under IOS, because this to me seems tyrannically.