While there are fewer download barriers for Android apps, Google Play Protect - the preliminary app safety check on Android phones - ensures that the number of potentially harmful applications installed via the official distribution platform remains under one percent.
dollars in revenues.Īndroid ecosystem transparency and Google Play data safetyĪccording to a survey conducted during the third quarter of 2021, 44 percent of Android users would switch to iOS for better data protection, while 41 percent would benefit from more security against malware. Similarly to the Apple App Store the Google Play Store introduced several commission rate plans reducing the standard developers’ fees, set at 30 percent since the very first launch of the Android Marketplace, to 15 percent in the case of subscription app publishers and small publishers with less than one million U.S. antitrust lawsuit over its Google Play Store developers’ fees have reignited the conversation over Google’s alleged monopoly in the Android market. Most recently, the Digital Market Acts (DMA) and a U.S. The complaints alleged that the presence of preinstalled Google apps such as Search and Google Chrome and that the restrictions over the use of the Android OS were hurting competition and costed to the tech giant a fine of over five billion U.S. The Google Play Store has been under the scrutiny of global and EU authorities for several years, with complaints being filed since the early 2010s due to competition concerns.
As of the third quarter of 2021, Android apps had a lower retention rate compared to iOS apps after three days from download, while Android app retention rate after 30 days dropped to 2.59 percent.Ĭompetition woes: Regulators and developers Gaming and education apps accounted for the largest share of apps available on the platform.
The platform is in continuous expansion, with almost 90,000 thousand apps being added in June 2022 alone, and an increase of 6.35 percent in apps available to users between the first and the second quarter of 2022. While Android apps have fewer download barriers and can be obtained by users across alternative app marketplaces as well as via the open web, the Google Play Store hosted 3.5 million apps as of the second quarter of 2022.
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