According to a study carried out jointly by Professor Andrey Fradkin, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, and Dr. Jessica Burley, economist of Analysis Group, Apple Stock, in 2024, had received $40.6 billion in ecoaccumulation, of which no development commission had been charged for over 90 per cent of the transactions through App Store.
Over the past five years, the size of the App Store ecosystem has nearly tripled from $142 billion in 2019 to $40.6 billion last year, including $53 billion for digital goods/services, $27.7 billion for physical goods/services and $75 billion for advertising applications. The income of developers has also more than doubled, especially for small development teams, which grew by 76 per cent between 2021 and 2024.
“For 15 years, App Store has created excellent opportunities for application developers, teams and businesses of all sizes,” Apple CEO Tim Cook says, “including many American developers who innovate, develop and achieve extraordinary achievements on App Store. We will continue to invest in powerful tools, technologies and resources to help developers in the United States, and even globally, to advance and create revolutionary experiences for users.”
In addition, according to the Apple Stock Fraud Analysis Report, released on 27 May, over the past five years, App Store has intercepted nearly 2 million risk applications and successfully stopped over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions, of which more than $2 billion was blocked in 2024 alone. In 2024, apples rejected 711 million requests for the creation of suspicious accounts and discontinued 129 million high-risk accounts to prevent them from engaging in illegal activities.
Apple claims that, thanks to a rigorous App audit process and strong privacy and security protection measures, App Store has always been a secure platform for users.