Apple’s app intelligence firm Sensor Tower has declared that the total number of apps on the store would double up by 2020, making more than 5 million apps available by then.So, in other words, by the end of the year 2020, the App Store will grow by 73% relative to the present year. For this goal, the Apple makes use of its App Intelligence platform.
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Apple’s App Store, already a dense warren of apps that most people don’t use and can’t find, is set to expand drastically in the next few years. The company came up with figures representing the worldwide active apps on the App Store at the end of each year as opposed to the number of apps released or expected to be released in the corresponding years.
The experts from Sensor Tower expects the number of apps to reach 2.93 million by the end of 2016 which will add more 2.13 million apps from the end of 2016 to the end of 2020 and thus the number of apps will stand to 5.06 million. By the end of 2015, the number has ballooned to 1.75 million apps, and now, there are just over 2 million apps on the App Store. The report goes on to note that games are still the dominant category, followed by education, entertainment, business, and lifestyle, with 21,000 new games added in the month of May alone.
As a outcome of this considerable growth, app developers, already struggling to be heard above the noise, will be even more hard-pressed to get their wares noticed. But the number of all these four categories, even if they are combined, is less than 50% of the games rolled out in the month of May. The iOS app may also soon suggest purchases directly via the “For You” tab. “Far more significant changes to the navigation, curation, and overall presentation of the App Store will be needed to support an ecosystem that’s twice today’s size just four years from now”, he said.
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Apple was recently involved in a controversy over the App Store, as the music streaming app Spotify accused the company of denying approval to updates on the App Store in order to eliminate competition with Apple Music.
