The Apple app store has become one of the company's main sources of income almost since its launch, along with the sale of devices. Since Apple's arrival in China, little by little this country has been gaining prominence in the company's annual accounts, but not only in terms of device sales, to which it has contributed enormously, but it is also contributing in the sale of applications. According to the latest App Annie report, published by AppleInsider, the Asian market has seen spectacular growth in just one year.
From the first quarter of 2015 to the first quarter of 2016, China has multiplied by 2.2 the number of revenues for Apple just talking about the application market, and the numbers seem to continue to rise, so it is likely that soon, it could exceed or equal the level of the United States, which is at the top of this classification. For now, China has already overtaken Japan, which for several years had been in second position, behind the United States, a country that has always topped the App Store's profit ranking.
Part of the growth, in addition to the large number of devices sold by the company in the country, are due to in-app purchases, which have become the most popular applications in the country, displacing the purchase-by-application model for that of fremium applications, something that many users do not just find funny, but that is a fact, since developers are adopting this new way of doing business, leaving aside the opinion that they may have a few about it.
If China's App Store revenue growth continue to grow, It is very likely that by the year 2017 China will be the country that generates the most income in the applications market. It should be borne in mind that in the United States, income from this concept has also grown, but China's growth has been spectacular, as we can see in the image that heads this article.
