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by Eric_WVGG 2546 days ago
That's weird. Why did they say that web apps were the way to go for the first two revs of "iPhone OS"?

But seriously: app store revenue is a rounding error. It's more likely that Apple perceives web apps as a threat to their bottom line the same way they view ripped MP3s as a threat to their iTunes revenue.
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Razengan 2546 days ago
> app store revenue is a rounding error.

“Apple’s apps economy: Bigger than Hollywood”

https://fortune.com/2015/01/22/apples-apps-economy-bigger-th...

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Eric_WVGG 2546 days ago
Eh? Videogames have made more money than Hollywood for years, that's not news or impressive.

$14b (app store napkin estimate), out of $265b (2018), is ~5%.

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dmitriid 2546 days ago
In 2018 AppStore revenue was $46.6 billion [1]. Apple revenue for 2018 was $265.6 billion [2]

So, your "rounding error" is in reality 17.5% of Apple's entire revenue. It's "only" twice bigger than the entire Mac portion of Apple's business which is $25 billion [3]

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-reven...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/265125/total-net-sales-o...

[3] https://notesmatic.com/2018/12/apple-revenue-from-mac/

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