Apple Says App Store Billings Up 50% In 2014. Total Of $25BN Now Paid To iOS Devs — techcrunch.com

It’s CES, which means Apple has just dropped its annual reminder that plenty of folk won’t care a fig for all those non-iOS consumer electronics that are currently getting manhandled in the Mojave desert. Cupertino’s CES spirit crusher this year is a missive announcing that the first week of January set a new global record for App Store billings, with customers spending nearly half a billion dollars on apps and in-app purchases. While New Year’s Day 2015 marked the “single biggest day ever in App Store sales history”.

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