iPhone users in the United States spent an average of $79 on App Store games and apps in 2018 according to an upcoming Sensor Tower report shared today by TechCrunch.
At $79, the revenue generated per active U.S. iPhone grew 36 percent year over year, up from an average of $58 spent per iPhone in 2017. iPhone users spent about $21 more in 2018 on in-app purchases and paid downloads.
Much of the spending growth came from mobile gaming, with 56 percent of the $79 total average attributed to App Store games.
Spending was also up quite a lot in other categories such as entertainment, music, social networking, and health and fitness.
Sensor Tower believes that subscription apps are a contributing factor for the increased spending in many of these non-faming categories.
Apple's App Store is a major revenue driver for Apple in its services category, with app purchases continually setting new revenue records. The App Store hit a new single-day revenue record on New Year's Day, for example, with customers spending a whopping $322 million.
Over the holiday period including Christmas and New Year's Day, the App Store raked in more than $1.22 billion.
Interesting. My volume of purchases is down, as I pay for quality I will use. I also avoid subscriptions like the plague - my fear is more of a shift to this model.
iPhone users in the United States spent an average of $79 on App Store games and apps in 2018 according to an upcoming Sensor Tower report shared today by TechCrunch ('https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/us-iphone-users-spent-79-last-year-up-36-from-2017/').
At $79, the revenue generated per active U.S. iPhone grew 36 percent year over year, up from an average of $58 spent per iPhone in 2017. iPhone users spent about $21 more in 2018 on in-app purchases and paid downloads.
The title you guys have given to this story is incorrect.
It is not accurate to say that the average iPhone user spent $79 last year.
It is accurate to say that iPhone users spent on average $79 last year.
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Be interesting to watch.
It is not accurate to say that the average iPhone user spent $79 last year.
It is accurate to say that iPhone users spent on average $79 last year.
Those are not the same thing.
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