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Apple publishes report on developers' success in App Store.

Some key findings:

• Developers generated $1.1 trillion in sales.
• Over 90% of that was paid directly to developers without Apple's commissions.
• 29% year-over-year growth.
• Travel, ride-sharing, grocery, food delivery apps see significant growth.

Report contains more details on 15 years of App Store history.

Apple Newsroom: Developers generated $1.1 trillion in the App Store ecosystem in 2022

References:

• Apple-Funded Study Suggests App Store Ecosystem Facilitated $1.1 Trillion in Sales in 2022
• Apple says App Store ‘ecosystem’ crossed $1 trillion in 2022, here’s what that means
• Economist Group Concludes Apple’s App Store Ecosystem Is Responsible for Facilitating $1.1 Billion in Commerce

Apple first App Store Transparency Report explaining app rejections, government requests, etc.

Report claims that 1,679,694 of 6,101,913 app submissions were rejected.

App submission rejections by App Store Review Guidelines section:

• Safety: 92,598
• Performance: 1,018,415 
• Business: 152,391
• Design: 212,464
• Legal: 441,972
• Other: 79,736

Also report includes number of terminated user accounts – 282,036,628.

Apple declares number of total number of developers – 36,974,015 and number of developer accounts terminated – 428,487.

Apple Legal: 2022 App Store Transparency Report (PDF)

References:

• Apple Publishes First-Ever App Store Transparency Report
• Apple shares its first ‘App Store Transparency Report’ with data on app rejections, gov requests, more

Apple shared a report claiming that App Store prevented more than $2b fraudulent transactions.

Apple mentions following measures:

• 428k accounts were terminated due to fraudulent activity
• over 100 million account creation request were blocked
• 282 million accounts were deactivated
• almost 1.7 million app submissions were rejected
• ratings were also checked for fraund
• almost 4 million stolen credit cards were blocked from use
• 714k accounts were banned from App Store
• over $2b fraudulent transactions were prevented

Apple sees a lot of criticism from regulators, users and developers for its App Store practices. And sides usually request Apple to loosen and harden App Store requirements at the same time. This reports provides some visibility for Apple efforts on making App Store safe for users and developers.

Apple Newsroom: App Store stopped more than $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2022

Apple held its Q2 2023 earnings call. While economy is on decline, Apple was still able to achieve great results with iPhone and services.

During the call Tim Cook reiterated that mass layoffs are considered 'last resort' and not planned right now.

Apple also announced that they're getting closer to 1 billion active subscribers.

While Apple did not announce any significant focus changes for AI, Tim Cook acknowledged hype around ChatGPT and said that company will keep working on bringing more AI to its platforms and services.

Apple Newsroom: Apple reports second quarter results

References:

• Apple Reports 2Q 2023 Results: $24.1B Profit on $94.8B Revenue, New March Quarter Record for iPhone Revenue
• Tim Cook Says Apple Still Not Considering 'Mass Layoffs'
• Apple announces it’s almost hit 1 billion active subscriptions
• Apple impresses analysts with 'Rock of Gibraltar-like' resilience that should inspire confidence
• Apple reports Q2 2023 earnings: $94.8 billion revenue, new records for Services and iPhone
• Apple Reports Q2 2023 Earnings
• Apple Q2 2023 Results

Setapp conducted Mac Developer Survey recently and now shares the results.

Notable findings are reported by 9To5Mac:

• 60% of the surveyed Mac developers are interested in distributing their iOS apps through third-party app stores, given the opportunity. Key motivations — growing the number of users and adding a revenue stream.
• Almost 1⁄3 of the surveyed Mac developers distribute their apps solely outside the Mac App Store.
• 39% of respondents have already implemented ChatGPT in their development flow, while another 41% are working on that.
• 44% of respondents have already implemented AI/ML models in their apps, and 28% are working on it.
• 87% of developers put effort into making their apps accessible, with visual impairments getting the most focus.
• 75% of the surveyed Mac developers have felt the impact of the economic downturn on their businesses.

Setapp: Mac Developer Survey 2023

Reference: Setapp Dev Survey results: Third-party iOS app store interest measured, ChatGPT adoption, more

AppleVis published their annual Apple Vision Accessibility report.

Overall, platforms perform well on the report, however, macOS noticeably gets lower scores for VoiceOver and other accessibility features.

AppleVis: Apple Vision Accessibility: the AppleVis Report Card

Reference: 2022 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card

Addigy released a report on Apple device management in 2023. Report is based on a survey company held for 480 managed services providers.

Report shows importance of device management for Apple platforms, expected raise of Apple device usage highlighted by survey respondents.

Also, almost respondents consider Apple devices more secure and easier to manage in day-to-day activities.

Addigy: 2023 State of the Apple Device Management Industry for MSPs

Reference: Addigy releases its 2023 State of the Apple Device Management Industry Report for MSPs

The White House just released a report on the state of mobile app ecosystems.
It is very developer-friendly conclusion and a call for more interoperability between platforms.

You can find it here

Apple will now add information on App Store application removal requests and actual removals in its transparency report.

According to investor group, Apple agreed to provide more information on reasons behind the takedowns on app-by-app basis.

References:

• Apple promises to detail why some apps are removed from the App Store
• Apple Transparency Report to Include App Takedowns

Each year during January developers using App Store should submit report on encryption usage in their apps for the past calendar year.

Reports should be emailed to Bureau of Industry and and the ENC Encryption Request Cordinator at crypt-supp8@bis.doc.gov and enc@nsa.gov.

This report must be submitted even if apps only use platform standard encryption components (such as HTTPS connections).

Online tool might be helpful for report generation.

Tool: BIS Annual Self-Classification Report Generator