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Kim: Mobile app store distribution has ossified around incumbents
“More and more, even recently, people are downloading less and less apps over time. Part one. Part two is It's harder and harder to get discovered in the app store. You know, app store ranking is is, is hard to sort of get discovery now. So now you have this is…”
Cafe Bazaar maintained market dominance in Iran over Google Play
“By the time that the Google play service was opened up in the country, although there was, there hasn't been a lot of advertising around it, which I don't think Google needs, but cafe buzzer has already created some domination in the market. So they are still …”
Evans: Google Maps and Play Store are Google's only crucial Android services
“Very briefly, it seems like the Maps and the App Store are crucial. None of the other services matter very much.”
Chan: Google Play drives under 10% of Chinese Android app downloads
“Google Play, I believe is less than 10% of Android app downloads.”
Google has never disclosed revenue data for Google Play
“They haven't given any statistics at all on Android in nine months and they haven't, they've never given any data on Google Play. I mean, they've given app downloads, but they've never given revenue data”
Evans: 93% of Google Play Devices Run Latest Play Services
“Google Play Services ships a new version every six weeks. 93% of the devices that are hitting Google Play are on the latest version.”