As the end of the year approaches, we see summaries of all kinds, but few with data as curious as this. It turns out that a firm has carried out a count of how many developers have become rich for ourselves thanks to the App Store y Google Play and we already know the number. Guess how many there will be? Who will have won more, those who bet on iOS or Android?
There are richer than last year
Both the App Store and Google Play have seen increased number of developers that they have come to win (we speak in terms of ingresos) one million dollars or more for the first time. These new rich They have thus been distributed between the iOS operating system (for iPhone or iPad) and the Android ecosystem (for the rest of the smartphones and many tablets on the market), generating a significant sum of money thanks to their work.
We now know how many have reached the magical million mark on the App Store and how many have on Google Play thanks to the report from Tower Sensor, which has published that the Apple store has had 164 developers in 2018 that have reached or exceeded a million dollars in revenue while Google's has turned 88 people in millionaires this year with its applications. Be careful because this means that, for example, in the case of Apple, the Cupertino house was able to raise more than 50 million dollars of that volume.
In both stores there is also a growth over the previous year. The 164 people this year are higher than the 143 people in 2017 at Apple, while the 88 Android developers are also ahead of last year's figure, with only 71 people (the growth has therefore been 20%).
In the case of Apple, we also know additional information about how your app store is managing lately, thanks to TechSpot. This medium indicates that Tim Cook's firm has been encouraging developers for a long time to switch to a business model for subscription which seems to be giving even better results than advertising within the app itself.
The categories in which it is most successful at the moment is in «Lifestyle» (Lifestyle) and «Health & Fitness» (Health and sport), precisely thematic areas where subscription possibilities are more likely to occur (for example, training or meditation programs). Its growth has been 57%, surpassing even the game apps sector. If you are a developer, keep that in mind.