Apple boasted its new sales record at this year’s consumer technology trade show CES, announcing that the first week of the new year brought with it the company’s highest-ever App Store sales as nearly half a billion dollars were spent on apps or in-app purchases.
New Year’s Day itself, Apple said, was the “single biggest day ever in App Store sales history.”
While 2015 is clearly off to a phenomenal start for the tech conglomerate, 2014 didn’t fare too poorly, either. The company additionally revealed that App Store billings spiked 50 percent last year, with apps generating more than $10 billion in revenue.
App developers, of course, deserve much of the credit for Apple’s App Store successes; the company praised indie game developers in particular for their work in an “especially inspired segment” of apps. In its announcement, the company said it paid $25 billion to App Store developers, a figure surpassing last July’s $20 billion payment.
Reports note that, in comparison, Google said it spent $5 billion on its Android app developers last June.
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Apple’s record-setting numbers have led to more than 1 million jobs being created from Apple technologies in the U.S. alone, the company says on its website, with about 627,000 of those jobs attributed to iOS-related business.
The company’s promising stats follow retailers’ push to adopt in-app checkout from Apple’s App Store; Ticketmaster, Groupon and LoungeBuddy all adopted Apple Pay in-app payments in recent months.
