New research by app developers’ platform Sensor Tower has shown that Apple’s App Store will be home to more than 5 million active apps by the end of 2020, a catalog 73% larger than it projected it will have at the end of 2016. In the research report, details of which were published on its official blog, the firm has presented what this growth will look like over the next 4 years, & break down the categories adding the most new apps by month.
Here are portions from the said blog post:
There were just over 5,000 active apps on the App Store worldwide at the end of 2008, a figure which grew to 1.75 million seven years later at the end of 2015. With just over two million active apps on the store worldwide as of this writing, we project that this figure will grow to 2.93 million by the end of 2016.
According to our projections, the App Store will add an additional 2.13 million apps over the next four years to contain 5.06 million active apps by the end of 2020—doubling its size as of this report, and growing by 73 percent over where we estimate it will be at the end of this year.
Games Dominate New Apps Added Each Month
Digging deeper into the makeup of apps being released each month on the App Store, we also took a look at the category breakdown of all apps added worldwide in May 2016. In all, 48,231 new apps debuted on the store in May, with the Games category accounting for approximately 43 percent of that figure at nearly 21,000 new games added for the month.
The remaining 22 categories accounted for the other 57 percent of new apps, with Education, Entertainment, Business, and Lifestyle rounding out the top five in terms of apps added. Weather saw the fewest new apps in May at 134.
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