With the arrival of smartphones, not only has the way of informing ourselves, interacting, entertaining, communicating and carrying out almost any operation through these devices changed, the business model of developers has also changed of applications as the app stores emerged for the main mobile platforms: iOS and Android.
The next Infographic about the history of the Google Play app store and the Apple App Store reviews the main milestones in the history of both app stores from their beginnings to the present.
History of the app stores
Both App Store and Google Play emerged in 2008although the App Store was launched in July and until October, when it already had 100,000,000 downloads, it appeared AndroidMarket, the first name for the Google app store.
They both broke in forever changing the concept of software and applications. It was no longer necessary to buy a CD with the programs we needed, but simply access them and choose, among many, the one that best suits our needs.
The App Store triumphed resoundingly in its beginnings. By 2009 it was already available in 77 countriessignificantly increased the number of available apps to 85,000 and achieved an impressive 10 billion downloads, while Android Market barely took off with 10,000 available apps.
The arrival of new devices diversified the offer of applications
Although initially, they were only dedicated to mobile phone applicationsbut the ease of its use and the appearance of new devices and tablets in 2010 both stores diversified their market offer: The App Store providing applications and games for iPhone and iPad, while the Android Market became the Google Play Store and completely changed its concept offering ebooks, magazines, music and video for a wide variety of devices.
This is how the year 2012 took off, introducing in-app payments and allowing developers to respond to user feedback, as well as having the ability to publish apps in 49 languages with auto-translation. While the App Store generated 5,000 million dollars (almost 4,300 million euros) in profit for developers and improved its search algorithm.
After some years of introducing improvements and, better conditions and greater security in the servers. By the end of 2016, he had made a profit of 240 million dollars in just one day! and announced that in its 9 years of existence it has generated 70,000 million dollars (almost 60,000 million euros).
surprisingly there are no exact figures on Google Play as of September 2013when they reached 26 billion dollars in sales, and 17% was through in-app purchases, which is surely much higher today.
In total, the two most important app stores in the world have managed more than 220,000 million downloadsand only last year Apple developers made profits of 20,000 million dollars (around 17,000 million euros) for their applications.
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