China overtakes the USA for the first time in app downloads from the App Store

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  China is an extremely important country for the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and despite the fact that the US generates much higher revenues for Apple, the Chinese generate more downloads for the first time in history App Storeof the In the image above, you have the result of an analysis made by an American company for the App Store, and the USA has lost the first place to China, in the third position is Japan, followed by Great Britain, while Russia completes this top 5.

  Regarding the receipts things are completely different, the USA occupying the first position, it being followed by Japan, China, Great Britain and Australia, and this demonstrates the fact that there is no direct correlation between the number of downloads generated by a country and the revenues generated for Apple. If we also look at the fact that Japan has only a tenth of China's population and still generates more money than it, we notice how much the purchasing power of iDevice owners matters, the number not being so relevant if the users have enough a lot of money to spend.

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  This information reflects the number of downloads made through the App Store in the first three months of 2015 and we see an interesting premiere that will definitely change the way Apple thinks about its strategies for the App Store in the future.