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App Store Breaks Records, Customers Spent $1.22 Billion In One Week (cnet.com)
During the holiday season, Apple's App Store broke records with customers spending over $1.22 billion between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day alone customers spent $322 million, setting a new record for the App Store's biggest single day. CNET reports: "The App Store had a record-breaking holiday week and New Year's Day. The holiday week was our biggest week ever with more than $1.22 billion spent on apps and games, and New Year's Day set a new single-day record at more than $322 million," said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Gaming and self-care were the most popular app categories over the holidays. The Cupertino tech company calls out Fortnite, PUBG, Brawl Stars, Asphalt 9 and Monster Strike as the top downloaded games.
when users donâ(TM)t buy their phones anymore.
creimer loves it when I shove my five-dollar footlong up his tight, white pooper! Painting his colon with my baby batter is amazing!
WOOOOOOOOOO!
And fuck pubg and fortnite. Buncha dumb bastards
And Phil Schiller is rubbing his hands with glee, laughing at how all the stupid goyim have made him rich.
Personally I would really like to read that Phil Schiller has some godawful incurable disease, because he's the piece of shit who called removing the headphone jack "courageous". Fuck Phil Schiller, he's a piece of shit.
I seriously don't get why everyone loves these app fads. I paid for Wolfram Alpha and a game or two I never play and didn't consider paying again. But then again I'm richer than most people for a reason.
I'm sure you are SO RICH because you spend $10/month less than most people on apps.
There are a lot of other common things you can not do that save you way more money...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI PEDO KEN DOLL
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Omg perfect timing. You should be a comedian
AAPL !LOST! 100 billion in ONE DAY! To-Day!
apple is such a boring company.
I should. His pooper makes me HNNNNNNNG!
in terms of a smartphone sale?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Some continues to screw developers, after forcing them to buy Apple hardware for development and forcing them to use their app store.
More developers need to speak up so consumers know how much Apple is ripping them off. Their fees are way too high
IF he really is richer than most, it is because most rich people aren't idling away their time in things like candy crush saga, fortnite, etc
I agree that rich people are probably not spending idle time on games.
All the more reason to judiciously purchase apps that save you time and trouble, giving you more time for the things that make you rich.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
By coincidence, this good news for Apple is released just as Apple sales figures fall short of expectation and the share price is decimated.
Even my quite niche polar alignment app for astronomers/astrophotographers had a 50% increase in sales from Dec 23 to Jan 1. I guess people had time to take out telescopes and mess with their phones?
As I said in a recent thread, Apple slowing down their sales by taking away inexpensive options (iPhone SE - which BTW was also ideal for people who wanted a smaller device) and increasing prices to ridiculous levels is very short sighted as the app store revenue (which depends on market share) is their second largest source of income. Already it seems that their market share has dropped from 14-17% to about 11% (reports vary, that seems to be the reported average), which means they have started leaving significant app store money on the table. And as freemium etc games have shown, it is not that someone who avoids big lump sums (e.g. only $350 for a phone - IIRC the iPhone SE price) will not spend a whole lot in app store microtransactions...
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What are these lies and propaganda? Please expand. Does anyone know what this guy is always on about?
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Is Apple trying to counter all the bad news about iPhone sales, diminished Mac sales, a stock market valuation crashing that mostly paints Apple has having a one hit wonder cash cow in the iPhone? If you look at Apple's revenue stream, everything depends on Apple continuing to sell a lot of iPhones. If that stops happening, then Apple becomes the company who failed to diversified.
This one number doesn't mean much. What means more is how many units did you sell? How many units did you sell around the same time frame last year?
As with most things just because you raked in more cash doesn't mean you sold more, it could just mean you raised your prices and sold less.