Application stores have become the main, and sometimes the only way to install applications on an operating system. App Store, Google Play Store and Microsoft Store are three clear examples of the stores where we can find all kinds of applications and games They have passed a series of filters to make sure they are completely safe.
In the battle for mobile game and application stores, where the Microsoft Store is left out, we can see how iOS users spend more money on apps that the users of the Google application store, Play Store, at least during the first 6 months of the year, in which the revenue of the App Store has doubled that generated by the Google application store.
According to the consulting firm Sensor Tower, the revenue obtained by the App Store during the months of January to June amounted to 22.600 billion dollars, 26,8% more compared to the same period of the previous year, while the revenue during the first half of 2018 for the Play Store was 11.800 million dollars, 29,7% than in the same period of the previous year.
According to the analysts of this company, the main reason why the income of the Google application store is below that of Apple is because not available in China, one of the largest markets in the world, if not the largest in the world today, at least by population, although India is catching up with it by leaps and bounds.
If we talk about the number of downloads, not the money generated, the Google application store has reached 36.000 million downloads while the Apple application store has only reached 15.000 million. With more than half of downloads, Apple's app store has generated twice the revenue of Google.
If we add the number of downloads of applications and games from both stores, we see how the total number of downloads has increased by 11.3% compared to the same period last year, with WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger being the four most downloaded applications from the same group. Netflix has been the most downloaded (non-game) application worldwide, followed by Tinder and Tencent Video.
