蘋果App Store年銷售額達150億美元
Apple continues to make billions of dollars from mobile apps sold in its App Store. The company said on Thursday that in 2014, billings from app sales rose 50 percent from the previous year, which results in roughly $15 billion in revenue for app developers and a $4.5 billion cut for Apple.
蘋果(Apple)又通過其應用程序商店App Store售賣的移動應用程序賺到了數十億元美元。該公司週四表示，2014年的應用程序銷售額同比上漲50%，應用程序開發者的收入達到了150億美元左右，公司從中分賬45億美元。
Apple takes a 30-percent cut of each app sale made in its App Store. The $4.5 billion sum is a tiny sliver for Apple, which makes more than $180 billion in annual sales. But it is still a considerable sum for providing a storefront for developers to sell their apps.
蘋果可以從應用程序商店售賣的每一款應用程序的銷售收入中獲得30%的分成。45億美元對蘋果來說是小意思，該公司的年營業額在1800億美元以上。但考慮到它只不過是給開發者們提供了一個售賣其應用程序的店面，這筆收入還是相當巨大的。By comparison, Google’s Android is the largest mobile operating system in the world, but its app store, Google Play, generates far less money than Apple’s. That’s partly because Apple’s iPhone customers are wealthier and spend more money than people who own Android phones. App Annie, an analytics firm that tracks mobile app sales, said that in the third quarter of 2014, Apple’s App Store revenue was 60 percent higher than revenue generated from Google Play.
相較之下，谷歌(Google)的安卓(Android)是全球最大的手機操作系統，但該公司的應用程序商店谷歌市場(Google Play)賺的錢，比蘋果應用程序商店少得多。這在某種程度上是因爲蘋果的iPhone客戶比使用安卓手機的人更富有，花錢也更多。跟蹤移動應用程序銷售額的分析公司App Annie稱，2014年第三季度，蘋果應用程序商店的營收比谷歌市場的高出60%。
App Annie said it had not yet released numbers for annual sales for Google Play. In June 2014, Google said it had paid out $5 billion to developers in the previous 12 months. Gina Johnson, a Google spokeswoman, said the company did not have newer statistics to share.
App Annie表示，谷歌尚未公佈谷歌市場的年度營收數據。2014年6月，谷歌稱其在過去12個月中已經向開發者支付了50億美元。谷歌的女發言人吉娜·約翰遜(Google spokeswoman)表示，公司沒有新的統計數據可供分享。Apple said its App Store serves 1.4 million apps for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. Google Play hosts 1.72 million apps, according to App Annie.
蘋果稱，其應用程序商店爲iPhone、iPad和iPod Touch等設備供應了140萬個應用程序。根據App Annie的數據，在谷歌市場出售的應用程序共有172萬個。
