{"id":16654,"date":"2018-04-05T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316167"},"modified":"2018-04-05T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:39:00","slug":"ios-app-store-shrinks-as-number-of-new-apps-falls-for-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/ios-app-store-shrinks-as-number-of-new-apps-falls-for-first-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS App Store shrinks as number of new apps falls for first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iOS App Store has started to shrink, with the number of apps on Apple&#8217;s mobile marketplace falling to 2.1 million in 2017 from 2.2 million in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.appfigures.com\/ios-developers-ship-less-apps-for-first-time\/\">As reported by analytics outfit AppFigures<\/a>, that five percent decline was partly the\u00a0result of Apple&#8217;s stricter enforcement of its review guidelines, as well as some technical changes that eliminated many older apps that didn&#8217;t support 64-bit architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more notably, it was also caused by a lack of fresh software, with the number of new apps hitting the App Store falling by 29 percent year-over-year to 755,000 &#8212; the first drop since the App Store launched in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Both the App Store and Google Play store had been experiencing consistent growth\u00a0until now, and while Apple&#8217;s marketplace took a hit, Google&#8217;s continued to surge upwards, growing by a rate of\u00a030 percent to more than 3.6 million apps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The number of new apps hitting the Google Play store also rose in 2017, with Google Play developers launching 1.5 million new apps throughout the year &#8212; an increase of around 17 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgamedev.win\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ios-app-store-shrinks-as-number-of-new-apps-falls-for-first-time-ever.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iOS App Store has started to shrink, with the number of apps on Apple&#8217;s mobile marketplace falling to 2.1 million in 2017 from 2.2 million in 2016. As reported by analytics outfit AppFigures, that five percent decline was partly the\u00a0result of Apple&#8217;s stricter enforcement of its review guidelines, as well as some technical changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16654","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\/16654","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=16654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}