{"id":4799,"date":"2014-08-08T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gazelle.com\/thehorn\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2024-03-07T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:24:23","slug":"apple-app-store-boasts-new-record-hits-billion-sales-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gazelle.com\/thehorn\/2014\/08\/08\/apple-app-store-boasts-new-record-hits-billion-sales-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple App Store Boasts New Record, Hits Over a Billion in Sales in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s App Store recently broke its previous revenue record of more than one billion dollars in July, and the company said it also saw a record number of customer transactions, according to <a style=\"font-size: 15px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101884090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>. Apple didn&#8217;t share specific earnings or app numbers, however, the company did disclose its second-quarter earnings results, with its stock up $1.28 per share, exceeding analysts&#8217; predictions of a $1.23 increase.<\/p>\n<p>Record sales such as this are a huge indicator that App Store sales are not just growing as a result of new customers buying new devices, which is what fueled spending when the last record was broken in December. July is typically a very slow month for new smartphone\u2014and specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazelle.com\/iphone?utm_campaign=gazelle_horn&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=gazelle_horn&amp;utm_content=apple-app-store-boasts-new-record-hits-over-a-billion-in-sales-in-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone<\/a>\u2014sales. A new app sales record says that more people are buying apps more often, even on older devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apps Are Here to Stay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So while there seems to be a new report every day claiming that the app business is dead, that apps are not the future, and that no one uses apps, the App Store&#8217;s growth proves otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the app business is a fickle one; businesses and individual developers are still trying to figure out how to make money from apps. App usage, however, is on the rise, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/mobile-app-usage-hits-51-of-all-time-spent-on-digital-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNET<\/a> reporting that 51 percent of what users spend on their smartphones goes toward apps. Apple&#8217;s growth in the dead of summer means that apps not only have a bright future, but that they are growing at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p>What are your favorite apps? Tell us in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Flickr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s App Store broke its previous revenue record of over a billion dollars in July, including record customer transactions.","protected":false},"author":12314,"featured_media":4798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-apple-news","8":"cs-entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apple App Store Boasts New Record, Over a Billion in Sales in July<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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