{"id":51391,"date":"2014-01-07T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51391"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:09:00","slug":"app-store-sales-hit-10-billion-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/51391\/app-store-sales-hit-10-billion-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store sales hit $10 billion in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.<\/p>\n<p>App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December making it the most successful month in App Store history.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s developers have earned $15 billion on the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,\u201d said Eddy Cue, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. \u201cThe lineup of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of iOS 7, developers were able to create apps that took advantage of the redesigned user interface and the more than 200 new features and APIs.<\/p>\n<p>The App Store offers more than one million apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 155 countries around the world, with more than 500,000 native iPad apps available.<\/p>\n<p>App Store customers can choose from a range of apps in 24 categories, including newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health &amp; fitness, travel and kids.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apps<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Top iPhone and iPad apps of 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/51055\/top-iphone-and-ipad-apps-of-2013\/\"><strong>Top iPhone and iPad apps of 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apps that know what you want before you do\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/51021\/apps-that-know-what-you-want-before-you-do\/\"><strong>Apps that know what you want before you do<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,51],"class_list":["post-51391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51392,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51391\/revisions\/51392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}