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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

2024-07-04
TechCrunch 5 related

Gen Z-focused social media app noplace, backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store, and raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation

Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.

2021-03-11
CNBC 23 related

Roblox closes at $69.50, valuing it at $38.26B, after opening under RBLX at $64.50, up 43% from its January funding round

and a reminder of the importance of patience in company building. My partner @joshk made this slide, which captures it well: https://twitter.com/... David Baszucki / @davidbaszucki : In 2004, we found...

2020-12-30
Sensor Tower Blog 36 related

Consumers worldwide spent $407.6M across the App Store and Google Play on Christmas, up 34.5% YoY; mobile games rose 27% YoY to $295.6M, led by Honor of Kings

2020 has been a record-setting year for worldwide spending on mobile apps and games, which passed $100 billion in a single year for the first time ever in November.

2020-10-02
Sensor Tower Blog 8 related

Global app revenue grew 32% YoY in Q3 2020 to more than $29B; consumer spending in the App Store grew 31% to $19B while Play Store grew ~34% YoY to $10.3B

Worldwide consumer spending in mobile apps reached $29.3 billion and their installs climbed to 36.5 billion across Apple's App Store …

2019-01-04
Apple 75 related

Apple revises guidance for its fiscal 2019 Q1 downwards due to weakness in some markets, particularly China

and today. But look how many tech people think PCs are essential and interesting. Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : 5/ There are many examples of mature product lines with significant growth selling into a...

2018-10-16
TechCrunch 4 related

A look at how some top utility apps on the App Store are making millions of dollars by using dark patterns, tricking users into signing up for subscriptions

Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017 …

2018-01-15
Asymco 1 related

Analysis: iOS users will be spending about $100M/day in 2018 on apps in the App Store, which has been growing at about $5B/year since mid-2011

In its latest update on the App Store Apple reported that iOS developers earned $26.5 billion in 2017.  A year ago the figure was $20 billion.

2016-02-03
Re/code 3 related

Anonymous messaging app After School raises $16.4M led by Accomplice one year after it was banned from the App Store

Anonymous App After School Raises $16.4 Million One Year After App Store Ban  —  What a difference a year can make.  One year ago, anonymous messaging app After School …

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Quarterly Coverage

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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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