Social simulator Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp from Nintendo topped the ranking of iOS app downloads in the United States seven hours after its release on November 21.

According to the forecast of the analytical company Sensor Tower, from 2016 to 2020, the average user’s spending in the United States on iPhone apps and purchases in them will grow by 86% to $88 per year.

Japanese gamers took the first place in the world in spending in Pokémon GO. The average player’s expenses in the Pokemon homeland for the year are $26 — 3 times higher than in the USA.

The amount of memory occupied by the top ten most popular iOS apps has increased 11 times over the past 4 years — from 164 megabytes to 1.8 gigabytes.

The average American Android user spent about $30 on apps in 2016. $27 of them fell on mobile games, according to the analytical firm Sensor Tower.

Nintendo’s first mobile release in 2017 proved to be very successful. The company’s new game, Fire Emblem Heroes, earned $2.9 million on its first day of sales. This is more than Clash Royale received on the day of release.

Since 2012, the ratio of paid and free games released in the App Store has changed a lot: there are significantly more free-to-play games. But the number of premium releases has not decreased.

The in-game event allowed Pokémon GO to increase daily revenues from $2 million to $4.6 million.

As part of the recently held WWDC 2016, the Apple company announced the winners of this year’s Apple Design Awards. About how the award affected their performance – in our material.

In the first quarter of 2016, only 1% of publishers accounted for more than 90% of revenue from paid apps and IAP in the US App Store.

In the first three months of the new year, iOS and Android users made 17.2 billion downloads. This is more than last year.