2024-12-19
Check out @SarahPerezTC's exclusive breakdown of @appfigures' 2024 #app economy overview! One of the most surprising findings is a 60% decline in new Google Play app releases as Google tightened up its submission process to curtail spam/scam, clones, and low/zero-effort apps.
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.