CATEGORIES OF APPS
CATEGORIES OF APPS
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In this section, we are going to analyze the range of categories in which the apps are available on the Google Play Store and which categories are relatively more popular.
Looking at the growth and competitiveness in the gaming industry, initially, only 10 Million installs were found and have expanded to 33 Billion.
According to Statista, It is estimated that global mobile gaming app revenues will grow from 90.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2020 to 116.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Mobile gaming is the biggest revenue segment of the worldwide gaming market.
The largest installation of the games was in the year 2018 with 33 Billion which had a 200 percent increase from its previous year.
The graph depicts the number of applications used for different categories on google play store from the year 2010 - 2018.
Firstly, looking at the applications from different categories, family category tends to have the maximum number of installs.
Following the family category, games and tools category have the next the highest number of applications installed.
It is estimated that, as of 2020, there were. 2.6 billion mobile gamers in the world. This ever increasing number surely brings in tons of revenue for Google Play Store.
Looking at the installations over time from 2010 to 2018, Games has the highest installations with Communication and travel and local coming close with 4 cumulative years each.
By Akshay Kashyap
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