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> app store revenue is a rounding error. “Apple’s apps economy: Bigger than Hollywood” https://fortune.com/2015/01/22/apples-apps-economy-bigger-than-hollywoo

• Eric_WVGG 7y ago
  Eh? Videogames have made more money than Hollywood for years, that's not news or impressive. $14b (app store napkin estimate), out of $265b (2018), is ~5%.
  • dmitriid 7y ago
    In 2018 AppStore revenue was $46.6 billion [1]. Apple revenue for 2018 was $265.6 billion [2] So, your "rounding error" is in reality 17.5% of Apple's entire revenue. It's "only" twice bigger than the entire Mac portion of Apple's business which is $25 billion [3] [1] https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-revenue-2018/ https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-reven... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/265125/total-net-sales-of-apple-since-2004/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/265125/total-net-sales-o... [3] https://notesmatic.com/2018/12/apple-revenue-from-mac/ https://notesmatic.com/2018/12/apple-revenue-from-mac/