The timing may be an accident. But four days after Marco Arment complained loudly and at length about the state of Apple’s software (and then wished he hadn’t) Apple issued a press release with a quote from Eddy Cue (“We’re so proud of the creativity and innovation developers bring to the apps they create…”) and a fresh crop of App Store facts:
- New Years Day was the single biggest in App Store sales history
- More than $500 million was spent in the first week of January on apps and in-app purchases, also a record
- App Store billings rose 50% in 2014
- Apps generated more than $10 billion in revenue for developers
- To date App Store developers have earned a cumulative $25 billion
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The rest of the press release featured quotes from happy developers and touted some of the same iOS 8 features — like HealthKit — that even users complain aren’t up to Apple’s standards.
Full text here: App Store Rings in 2015 with New Records
See also: How bad are the bugs in Apple’s software updates?
NEVER MIND!: Given that Apple released 2013’s App Store numbers exactly one year ago, it’s likely the timing of this release had nothing at all to do with Marco Arment.
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