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If the year 2020 has benefited anyone, that has to be Google because, according to recent statistics, there is another feat that the tech giant has been able to achieve on behalf of a massive number of downloads in its third quarter. And to one’s surprise, they have also beaten Apple this time.
A report published by Sensor Tower shows that the Google Play Store had 28.2 billion downloads in the third quarter of 2020, which is three times more than Apple’s 8.2 billion downloads in the similar quarter.
Google has had a pretty good year with its app store, with more and more people staying indoors and spending time doing other things besides work, so overall there are 80.6 billion apps downloaded from Play. Store. Apple, on the other hand, has only 26.6 billion downloads combined.
Much of the credit for Google’s success is due to the fact that the platform is home to the largest application portfolio with 2.7 million applications (which in itself is a 5.85 percent increase from the previous quarter ). Breaking down the number of downloads, 13.49 percent of them were made by game fans. Education-related downloads were 9.11 percent and third on the list were business-related apps with 6.95 percent.
Google Play downloads also increased 31% year-over-year.
Apple rebounded with its number of downloads in the first three months of 2020, but that moment did not continue for the rest of the year, since this quarter the number fell to 8.2 billion. The difference also makes perfect sense when you consider the fact that Apple only hosts 1.82 million apps for users to download.
