{"id":21112,"date":"2018-04-05T17:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21112"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:26:38","slug":"app-store-shrank-for-first-time-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/app-store-shrank-for-first-time-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Shrank for First Time in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/04\/04\/app-store-shrank-for-first-time-in-2017-thanks-to-crackdowns-on-spam-clones-and-more\/\">Sarah Perez<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16758991\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/04\/04\/app-store-apps-shrank-in-2017\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/04\/04\/app-store-shrank-for-first-time-in-2017-thanks-to-crackdowns-on-spam-clones-and-more\/\"><p>The App Store shrank for the first time in 2017, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.appfigures.com\/ios-developers-ship-less-apps-for-first-time\/\">new report from Appfigures<\/a>. The report found the App Store lost 5 percent of its total apps over the course of the year, dropping from 2.2 million published iOS apps in the beginning of the year to 2.1 million by year-end.<\/p><p>Google Play, meanwhile, grew in 2017 &mdash; it was up 30 percent to more than 3.6 million apps.<\/p><p>Appfigures speculated the changes had to do with a combination of factors, including stricter enforcement of Apple&rsquo;s review guidelines, along with a technical change requiring app developers to update their apps to the 64-bit architecture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.appfigures.com\/ios-developers-ship-less-apps-for-first-time\/\">Appfigures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.appfigures.com\/ios-developers-ship-less-apps-for-first-time\/\"><p>Android developers kept busy, and in the last year alone released more than 1.5 million new apps. This is an increase of about 17% year over year, the largest jump since 2014. iOS developers on the other hand, took their time releasing just 755k new apps in 2017. That&rsquo;s a big drop! 29% to be precise, the first drop since the App Store launched in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>More than twice as many iOS apps came to Android in 2017 than Android apps came into the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Perez (Hacker News, MacRumors): The App Store shrank for the first time in 2017, according to a new report from Appfigures. The report found the App Store lost 5 percent of its total apps over the course of the year, dropping from 2.2 million published iOS apps in the beginning of the year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-12T01:12:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"8d8c4c12-d419-48ff-b556-f6a1125039fd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-12T01:12:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjYxMEtQZSP-1VvahElA5_Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,91,784,31,1472],"class_list":["post-21112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-appstore","tag-google-play-store","tag-ios","tag-ios-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21113,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112\/revisions\/21113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}