Consumers Spent $133 Billion On Apps In 2021
December 8, 2021 11:07AM EST
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Smartphone users spent a record $133 billion on apps and games in 2021, according to a new report.
That’s a nearly 20 percent increase over 2020 – despite first-time app installs only ticking up by half a percentage point.
Consumers spent more than $85 billion through the Apple App Store, compared to $48 billion through Google Play.
How much did you spend on apps and games in 2021? Has the pandemic made us all spend even more time on our phones?
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