{"id":108661,"date":"2020-02-04T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357595"},"modified":"2020-02-04T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:48:00","slug":"android-app-developers-have-earned-over-80-billion-through-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/android-app-developers-have-earned-over-80-billion-through-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Android app developers have earned over $80 billion through Google Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Mobile developers have earned over $80 billion through the Google Play Store worldwide, a figure mentioned during Google-parent Alphabet Inc\u2019s Q4 earnings call this week. Google Play as a platform now has over 2 billion monthly active users as well.<\/p>\n<p>Those snippets come from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s small update on what he describes as the &#8220;thriving&#8221; Android platform during the company\u2019s recent Q4 earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately he doesn\u2019t dive into specifics on how those earnings are split category by category, so there\u2019s no info on how this breaks down between game and non-game apps for the time being. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Mobile developers have earned over $80 billion through the Google Play Store worldwide, a figure mentioned during Google-parent Alphabet Inc\u2019s Q4 earnings call this week. Google Play as a platform now has over 2 billion monthly active users as well. Those snippets come from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai\u2019s small update on what he describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}