Windows Store numbers for the first month of Windows 8
A month ago, on October 26, sales of Windows 8 started - and it was officially announced that 40 million licenses of the new OSes had been sold in the first month.
Also this month, the new Windows Store application store was actively gaining momentum - a single channel for delivering applications to tablets, laptops and desktops. It was officially announced that a number of applications had already surpassed the $ 25,000 mark and began to receive 80% of revenue from users.
Naturally, the launch of the Windows Store did not go unnoticed by application analysts - and one of the leaders in this field, Distimo, published its report (based on its data) on the new store.
First, a month after the start of sales in the Store, there are already 20,000 applications. This is the largest application store on the launch of platforms for all time:
Interestingly, this is more than the Mac App Store, which was launched about two years ago.
Windows Store is also ahead of the number of downloads of popular applications - some of them already have millions of users:
As you know, the most popular application segment on all platforms is games. Their share usually reaches 50%. However, in Windows Store this figure is 25% - Productivity applications are also very popular - obviously, due to the capabilities of Windows itself and the content creation devices on it:
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Finally, Windows 8 developers create a lot of local content and local applications. We see it well in Russia, when there are popular services for some region. Also, obviously, in Russia there are many applications that are popular in our country. Users obviously like this targeting.
The growth of the Windows Store is impressive - we are waiting for new bright applications from the developers!
Also this month, the new Windows Store application store was actively gaining momentum - a single channel for delivering applications to tablets, laptops and desktops. It was officially announced that a number of applications had already surpassed the $ 25,000 mark and began to receive 80% of revenue from users.
Naturally, the launch of the Windows Store did not go unnoticed by application analysts - and one of the leaders in this field, Distimo, published its report (based on its data) on the new store.
First, a month after the start of sales in the Store, there are already 20,000 applications. This is the largest application store on the launch of platforms for all time:
Interestingly, this is more than the Mac App Store, which was launched about two years ago.
Windows Store is also ahead of the number of downloads of popular applications - some of them already have millions of users:
As you know, the most popular application segment on all platforms is games. Their share usually reaches 50%. However, in Windows Store this figure is 25% - Productivity applications are also very popular - obviously, due to the capabilities of Windows itself and the content creation devices on it:
')
Finally, Windows 8 developers create a lot of local content and local applications. We see it well in Russia, when there are popular services for some region. Also, obviously, in Russia there are many applications that are popular in our country. Users obviously like this targeting.
The growth of the Windows Store is impressive - we are waiting for new bright applications from the developers!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/161075/
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