2025-04-30
Google finally got serious and deleted millions of bad apps from Google Play. I suspect that with time this will bring back trust and grow consumer spending. Great for developers 👏 https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Appfigures: Google Play now hosts ~1.8M Android apps, down 47% from ~3.4M at the start of 2024, likely due to raising minimum quality requirements in July 2024
Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps. — From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …
2024-12-19
I think the bad news is just short term. Both Apple and Google are working to make their stores interesting again. Google is cleaning up by making it harder to publish low quality apps while Apple is pushing “old school” discovery with more organic app featuring and making category views top level after hiding them a few years ago.
TechCrunch
Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B
The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending.
I've been saying this for a while - downloads are down but revenue is up - and that's not a bad thing (if you know what to do) Just look at these numbers 👇
TechCrunch
Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B
The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending.
2024-06-19
This year was big for sherlocking, and it's not _just_ AI's fault... I hope your apps are still safe.
TechCrunch
Appfigures: iOS 18 could “Sherlock” trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue
competition chief blasts “very serious” issues with DMA non-compliance Samantha Wiley / iLounge : TestFlight iOS app gets a revamp Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : How to manage and trac...
2023-12-03
@MrAlexTech Keep in mind, bending spoons publishes a bunch of different apps across a bunch of different industries so it's really down to the numbers not the product.
PetaPixel
Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker's entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham
Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off …