Apple has highlighted that developers in India earned $5.31 billion from the App Store in 2024, but makes the real headline be just how little developers have had to pay Apple itself.
Apple has occasionally promoted how much money developers make from the App Store — in 2018 it said they’d earned $100 billion since the store opened, and then in 2019 the total was $120 billion. It’s now singled out a study that reports Indian developers earned $5.31 billion from Apple during 2024 — but it’s really saying that as part of its defence against accusations of anti-competitive practices.
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