对于移动应用程序开发人员和下载和使用其应用程序的人来说，2014年是一个富有成效的人。根据来自去年的应用程序数量和开发人员数量的增长，为两个领先的应用商店创建它们的数量应用程序。该公司为移动应用程序开发人员提供报告平台，该平台扫描“全球所有应用程序存储”以跟踪其客户的应用程序，这就是AppFigures收集其2014年数据的方式。
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与CIO相关的IT部门及其公司用户最相关的是与业务应用相关的AppFigures编号苹果的iOS应用商店和Google Play.
The Business apps category saw the most growth in both the total number of iOS apps and number of developers creating new software for Apple's App Store, with year-over-year increases of more than 210 percent and 175 percent, respectively. More than 128,000 new Business apps were released in the iOS App Store in 2014, appFigures says. The other iOS app categories with the most growth by total number of apps were Food & Drink, Social Networking, Lifestyle and Catalogs. The iOS app categories with the most growth in new developers, behind business apps, were Lifestyle, Games, Education and Entertainment. (Apple set the specific categories names in its App Store.)
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Business applications for Android were not quite as popular in Google Play, but they did still see significant growth in total number of both apps and new developers, with increases of more than 220 percent and 180 percent respectively. The fastest growing Android app categories by total number of apps were Games, Photography, Music, Business and Entertainment. The largest increases in new developers by app were Games, Business, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Tools. (Again, the categories in the appFigures reports are based on categories set by Google in the Play store.)
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What It All Means for Enterprises
这些数字对企业很重要，因为更多的iPhone业务应用程序和Android设备可能会导致更多的员工使用其智能手机和平板电脑进行不同类型的工作相关活动。
"The industry has matured to the point where the apps aren't just adding tremendous value but are also enabling the controls enterprises need to manage and maintain those apps," says Ariel Michaeli, appFigures CEO. "We believe CIOs and IT teams are now in the unique position where they can greatly empower their companies by leveraging existing apps or getting apps developed for their needs.
"Both Apple and Google have taken a strong stand on privacy on their devices, [but] by having more strict control over the apps in its store, we see Apple as the one with the edge currently. That's poised to change as Google Play continues the growth it saw in 2014."
AppFigures报告还包括许多其他值得注意的应用商店指标。例如，Google Play商店在Apple商店的总数中击败了Apple的App Store，其应用程序总数为143万，而Apple的121万则击败了Apple商店。亚马逊的App Store共有293,000个Android应用程序。去年年初，当AppFigures报告了2013年在每个App Store中的应用总数时，Apple是拥有超过750,000个应用程序的领导者，而Google的大约700,000和亚马逊的应用程序约为130,000个应用程序。
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Google not only outpaced Apple and Amazon in the total number of apps, its developer base grew more rapidly in 2014, for the third year in a row, according to appFigures. Google Play offered apps from roughly 388,000 different developers in 2014, while Apple distributed apps from about 282,000 developers. Amazon offered apps from 48,000 different developers, appFigures says.
In 2014, the total number of apps distributed via all three stores increased by at least 50 percent year-over-year, according to appFigures, and the number of apps distributed through Google Play doubled. It's also worth noting that more new developers began offering apps in Google Play than the total number of new developers who joined both Apple and Amazon's stores combined.
Check out the应用程序report yourself for more details, and graphic representations, of the company's 2014 app store data.
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