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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.
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.
They should go to the razor blade model, I'd love a free phone :D
If you're blowing money on dumb apps, you're probably blowing money on a lot of things, that's part of the reason why you're broke. The other reason is your need for instant gratification, and altered brain reward center has made it difficult to focus on the important things in life like your business or career.
What apps are worth buying? Serious question.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
There is a new one being released by nestle in a few years called air and water. You won't be able to live without it.
I can confidently recommend saving money by not giving any to Apple.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
What apps are worth buying? Serious question.
It varier per person, per need and interest.
I like a number of weather apps.
If you do video at all from a phone (and you should, the quality these days from any modern smart phone is quite high) some professional video capture apps are useful if you know what you are doing. (basically Filmic Pro)
If you do photography much at all, TPE is an invaluable tool to understand how the sun and the moon will relate to your location through the day.
There are a variety of great weather apps that are useful for different things, I really like Weatherline and Weather Radar Pro.
Call blocker apps are invaluable with the rising levels of call spam.
On the iPad Affinity Photo is a for-real photo editor with almost all the desktop features.
Those are some paid apps I think are really worthwhile, of course there are scores of free apps that have utility at times. I'm sure there are a lot of other paid app examples I don't even use or have forgotten.
Basically I would challenge the notion that anyone paying for apps is spending very much money at all, because you can get an awful lot of utility for not much money.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
in terms of a smartphone sale?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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...
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
And Phil Schiller is rubbing his hands with glee, laughing at how all the stupid goyim have made him rich.
First post, blatantly anti-semitic, +1 informative.
Someone mod this shit down. And don't forget to meta-moderate so whichever berk modded this up doesn't get mod points in future.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
thats what they get for putting a damn notch in my screen.
You're the one who bought the piece of shit.
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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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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.