App Store Kicks Off 2018 with Record-Breaking Holiday Season
January 04 2018 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
New Year’s Day Sets Record with $300 Million in Purchases
App Store® customers around the world made apps and games a
bigger part of their holiday season in 2017 than ever before,
culminating in $300 million in purchases made on New Year’s Day
2018. During the week starting on Christmas Eve, a record number of
customers made purchases or downloaded apps from the App Store,
spending over $890 million in that seven-day period.
“We are thrilled with the reaction to the new App Store and to
see so many customers discovering and enjoying new apps and
games,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president
of Worldwide Marketing. “We want to thank all of the creative app
developers who have made these great apps and helped to change
people’s lives. In 2017 alone, iOS developers earned $26.5 billion
— more than a 30 percent increase over 2016.”
Pokémon GO went back to the top of the App Store charts on
December 21 with the introduction of new augmented reality
features, built on Apple’s ARKit framework for more detailed
and realistic gameplay. Customers are now enjoying close to
2,000 ARKit-enabled apps spanning every category on the App Store.
Among the most popular AR titles are games such as CSR Racing 2,
Stack AR and Kings of Pool; shopping apps like Amazon and Wayfair;
education apps including Night Sky and Thomas & Friends Minis;
and social media apps including Pitu and Snapchat.
The newly redesigned App Store, introduced with iOS 11 in
September, has also been making app and game discovery
fun and easy for the over half a billion customers that visit
the App Store every week. The App Store’s new Today, Games and Apps
tabs showcased breakout hits in 2017, including Animal
Crossing: Pocket Camp, Monument Valley 2, King of Glory, Calm and
Affinity Photo. Fan favorites Clash of Clans, Candy Crush Saga,
Enlight Videoleap, 1Password and Hulu also remained popular
throughout the year.
Since the App Store launched in July 2008, iOS developers have
earned over $86 billion.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees
are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
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