December was most profitable month for Apple's App Store with $3 billion in revenues

Apple's App Store, which feeds services and apps into its iOS products hit a high point back in December with US $3 billion in revenue and most of the sales went to games. January 1, 2017 saw $240 million in customer purchases which made that the app store's busiest single day ever.

In an Interview with The Verge, Apple's Marketing SVP Phil Schiller said December was the biggest month of sales in history for the App Store. Launched back in 2008, the App Store now has  2.2 million apps available. Developers have earned $20 billion dollars in 2016, up 40 percent from a year ago. Games ruled the App Store and Pokemon GO was still the most popular and downloaded application as the most downloaded app of 2016.

“2016 was a record-shattering year for the App Store, generating $20 billion for developers, and 2017 is off to a great start with Jan. 1 as the single biggest day ever on the App Store,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We want to thank our entire developer community for the many innovative apps they have created — which together with our products — help to truly enrich people’s lives.”

Nintendo’s Super Mario Run made history with more than 40 million downloads in just four days after its release, and was the most downloaded app globally on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. 

Source: The Verge