Android could overtake Apple in overall app sales this year.
The projected sales of all Android apps could beat out earnings from Apple's App Store for the first time ever this year, according to a forecast by specialised market research group App Annie . The report suggest that Apple's App Store will pull in $40bn (£32bn, AU$52bn) by the end of 2017, an increase of $6bn from last year's figures, while Google Play is looking at raking in $21bn (£17bn, AU$27bn). The combination of this rather strong projected earning from Google Play with other popular Android stores, such as Samsung's and Amazon's, is expected to bring that total up to $41bn. Impressively, while the Apple App Store is predicted to double the earnings of the Play Store, the amount of the applications actually downloaded is only around a quarter of Google's. This could indicate a number of things, including the possibility that Android users are more likely to download free apps and are less likely to splurge on in-app purchases, or that there are more fr...