AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY
More instinctive technology is accelerating production amid concerns it risks losing gamers' trust
Counterpoint: Apple's China smartphone sales grew 23% YoY in the first nine weeks of 2026, as China's overall market fell 4% YoY amid higher memory chip prices
Apple (AAPL.O) posted a 23% surge in China smartphone sales in the first nine weeks of 2026, bucking a broader market decline …
Taiwanese media: Asus Chair Jonney Shih says the company won't release any new smartphones in 2026, which may signal the brand's exit from the Android market
Taiwanese media: Asus Chair Jonney Shih says the company won't release any new smartphones in 2026, which may signal the brand's exit from the Android market
Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow
Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year
ChatGPT's mobile app is raking in the revenue. — Since launching in May 2023, ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android devices …
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 …
Appfigures: DeepSeek has topped the list of the most downloaded mobile apps across 140 markets, with India contributing 15.6% of all downloads since its launch
- The chatbot is most-downloaded app across Android and iPhone — Chinese startup has upended thinking about AI development
IDC expects global smartphone shipments to grow 6.2% YoY to 1.24B units in 2024, due to Android shipments growing 7.6% YoY and iPhone shipments growing 0.4% YoY
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 6.2% year-over-year in 2024 to 1.24 billion units, according …
Appfigures: ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps hit $4.2M in net revenue from May 13 through May 17, as net revenue grew 22% the day of the GPT-4o launch
Consumer demand for the latest AI technology is heating up. The launch of OpenAI's latest flagship model, GPT-4o, has now driven …