China is Now Apple App Store’s Second Biggest Market

IOS Apple developers could begin to focus their energies on creating applications for Asian countries. According to a report Distimo, China is now the number two market in the App Store in terms of volume of discharge.While the U.S. retains its title as the biggest market, the report shows that it was Distimo explosive growth in China and the rest of Asia over the last six months. However, there was a decrease in the volume of discharge in some Western countries like France and Germany.

For example, South Korea has a very high volume of discharge, given the small size of the country. This is important given the fact that the South Korean store the application does not have a category of game, which Distimo previously considered the application of more ranking unique in the U.S. and Europe.
Asia is the way the Western world when it comes to downloading applications for payment, the payment application of income is about one third higher in the United States are in Asia. Distimo IOS users in the Asian market to be much more “price sensitive.”
Distimo also noted that the purchases have not yet drilled in Asia. Only 34 percent of the increase in tax revenues has been 200 requests for applications offered in the application of shopping in China, while in the United States, the figure is 68 percent.
As China goes, it is not surprising that the market for applications IOS has expanded so significantly. Demand for Apple products has been increasing since the first Apple Store opened in Beijing in 2008. In its first quarter earnings call last month, Apple revealed that quarterly revenue in China has quadrupled to $ 2.6 billion, 10 percent of total revenue from Apple.

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