Originally posted on Gigaom:
The combined total of releases to Apple's iOS app store for AOL, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo has more than doubled from 2012 to 2014. In 2012 the four companies had 315 releases spread across 98 different apps and in 2014 that number rose to 643 releases to a combined total of 143 different apps. That is an increase in releases per app from 3.21 to 4.49, and it also represents an increase in each company's commitment to develop higher quality apps for the iOS platform.
Given that they have their own mobile platforms, one would think that both Microsoft and Google would have better things to do than target Apple's iOS platform. However, out of the four, those companies each represent 39 percent and 32 percent of the total number of apps in the App Store, respectively. This proportion of apps however is not reflected in the number of releases. Yahoo...
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