VK announced that the RuStore app store has reached an important milestone. Since its launch in May 2022, it has been downloaded over 100 million times.
According to the company, by the end of 2023, RuStore had three times fewer downloads. VK attributes the store's growing popularity to its availability on a wider range of operating systems and types of devices. It now works on systems such as Android, Harmony, and Aurora. Additionally, besides smartphones and tablets, it can also be used on devices like TVs and e-readers.
Another reason for the increase in store downloads is the expanded RuStore app catalog, which now includes over 50,000 titles.
It is worth noting that in November 2022, RuStore was included in the list of mandatory software for pre-installation on devices sold in Russia. In a comment to the newspaper "Vedomosti," a VK representative mentioned that pre-installs accounted for about a third of the store's downloads, with the remaining two-thirds being user-initiated downloads.