{"id":207173,"date":"2020-01-09T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=265862"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T16:22:42","slug":"apple-heralds-services-strength-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/09\/apple-heralds-services-strength-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple heralds Services strength in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tApple released a year-end update for its Services business, highlighting a record-breaking period for its App Store as customers spent $1.42 billion in the final week of December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Apple said customers spent the amount between 24 and 31 December, representing a 16 per cent increase year-on-year. The growth continued into 2020, with spend on 1 January hitting $386 million, up 20 per cent on the opening day of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a broader update on the platform, it said half a billion people visit the App Store each week and, since its initial launched in 2008, developers had earned $155 billion in total.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter of those earnings were generated in 2019 alone, Apple added.<\/p>\n<p>Eddy Cue, Apple\u2019s SVP of Internet Software and Services said 2019 was the \u201cbiggest year for Services\u201d in the company\u2019s history, as it added Apple Arcade, TV+, News+ and Card [1] to its existing App Store, Apple Music and iCloud platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In the update, the company also provided a list of the top ten free iPhone apps downloaded by customers in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list was YouTube, followed by Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/apple-presses-go-on-card-launch\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple released a year-end update for its Services business, highlighting a record-breaking period for its &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/apple-heralds-services-strength-in-2019\/\">Apple heralds Services strength in 2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/09\/apple-heralds-services-strength-in-2019\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2048,2,2047,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-RTv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}