Apple generated 627,000 jobs in US, forked $10billion f for iOS developers last year

 Apple continues to led payouts to the developer community.. as it shelled out a record 10billion USD  to iOS developers in year  2014.  Asymco reported some other impressive stats on  its App Store and iTunes

• Apple spent $500 million on iOS apps in first week of January 2015
•  Billings for apps increased 50% in 2014
• Cumulative developer revenues were $25 billion (making 2014 revenues 40% of all app sales since store opened in 2008)
• Apple create 627,000 jobs  in US last year,
• Apples  1.4 million iOS apps catalog is sold in 155 countries

The App ecosystem billings (what consumers actually pay) is shown in the red area above. 70% of those payments are transferred directly to developers and Apple reports the 30% remaining as part of its revenues

#Apple, #itunes, #App Store

Posted  by Sumit Roy on 18th March, 2015