Apple has once again managed to outperform Google in a big way on the subject of app-generated revenues, despite having accrued a much lower quarterly download total. Google has been making serious progress as of late with its app sales, but still hasn’t managed to dethrone Apple in terms of download-generated revenues. According to the […]
Apple has once again managed to outperform Google in a big way on the subject of app-generated revenues, despite having accrued a much lower quarterly download total.
Google has been making serious progress as of late with its app sales, but still hasn’t managed to dethrone Apple in terms of download-generated revenues.
According to the latest round of figures from App Annie’s, Android App downloads for Q2 2014 rocketed an impressive 60% compared to the prior quarter. By contrast, Apple’s iOS app downloads accelerated by 45% compared to the first three months of the year.
In specifics, Android App downloads tipped the 150 million mark for the second quarter of the year, compared to the 100 million or so recorded at the end of Q1. The growing popularity of Smartphones in developing markets like India and Brazil contributed to the surge in app downloads in a big way, with India having now become the third biggest market of all for Android app downloads.
Despite such huge progress in app downloads however, the revenue figures for the same period didn’t look quite so impressive. Even though Apple’s iOS app downloads came out considerably lower than Android app downloads for the period, the Cupertino bunch still managed to take home a full 80% more revenue than the folks at Mountain View.
Revenue for iOS downloads was up by 45% to hit around $100 million generated revenues, while Google had to make do with a comparatively paltry $60 million.
