The global app economy continued to recover in 2024, after an earlier slowdown in 2022 — at least in terms of consumer spending. In 2024, global consumer

Though spending was up, there was another worrying sign about the overall health of the app ecosystem. This year, global app downloads were down by 2.3%, compared with 2023, reaching nearly 110 billion. This downward trend was seen across both app stores, the data indicates.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    11·
    22 hours ago

    Those two numbers in the headline are incomparable, and almost complety uninformative.

    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      15 hours ago

      They are not though, In app transactions is probably the reason.

      • weirdboy@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        The very least they could do is say how much the revenue changed vs. previous year.