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the App Store

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228 articles accelerating

the App Store has appeared in 228 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 11 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, App Store, iPhone, Google.

Articles
228
mentions
Velocity
+250.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+3.318
velocity change
Sources
59
publications

Coverage Timeline

2024-01-10
TechCrunch

Sensor Tower: Netflix Games downloads rose 180% YoY to 81.2M globally across the App Store and Google Play in 2023, with Q4 accounting for 53% of downloads

Just over two years ago, Netflix announced it would enter a new business: gaming.  Amid a mobile gaming market dominated by free …

2023-01-12
TechCrunch 4 related

Data.ai: in 2022, global mobile app spending fell 2% YoY to $167B, downloads grew 11% YoY to 255B, game spending fell 5% YoY, and non-game spending grew 6% YoY

data.ai REPORT The State of Mobile 2023: How to Navigate … Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : App store spending fell by 2% in 2022 (but it was still $167bn) Tweets: @dataai : The State of Mobile 2023 repor...

2022-06-03
TechCrunch 5 related

Sensor Tower: daily downloads needed for an app to hit No. 1 on the US App Store is 156K, up 37% from 114K in 2019; Android apps need 56K, down from 83K in 2019

A new analysis indicates it's gotten harder to get an app to the top of the App Store, in terms of downloads, over the past several years.

2022-01-07
TechCrunch 2 related

Apptopia and Sensor Tower: Meta's Oculus app saw ~2M downloads across the App Store and Google Play since Christmas Day, with a majority of installs in the US

Entertainment, your guide to the business of the gaming and media industries.

2017-12-28
Amazon.com 32 related

During record-breaking holiday, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were #1 and #2 top sellers with “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” sold

And what that might mean for Apple's HomePod Alex Cranz / Gizmodo : Google's mixed 2017 hardware launches, from the stellar Pixelbook to the average Pixel 2 and awful Pixel Buds, highlight why it's lo...

2017-09-04
TechCrunch 6 related

Tinder hits top grossing app in the App Store on heels of Tinder Gold launch

Tinder has hit number 1 in the App Store's top grossing category for the very first time.  —  Claiming top spot in the App Store likely has to do with the global launch of Tinder Gold, which lets user...

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

the App Store has appeared in 270 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT,... and Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, App Store, iPhone, Epic, and Google. Coverage has shifted toward developer, funding themes and away from regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q2developer +10pts; research -11pts
2024Q3enterprise +20pts; developer -10pts; regulation -10pts
2024Q4enterprise +13pts; developer +33pts

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