SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 ― Apple said yesterday its App Store “ecosystem” surged in 2020, fuelled by pandemic-hit consumers seeking to stay connected for work, school and play.
“The apps we’ve relied on through the pandemic have been life-changing in so many ways ― from groceries delivered to our homes, to teaching tools for parents and educators, to an imaginative and ever-expanding universe of games and entertainment,” Apple chief executive Tim Cook said in a release. The Global Perspective on the Apple App Store Ecosystem study focused on small developers with fewer than a million downloads and less than US$1 million in earnings last year.