Apple's App Store generated 88 percent more revenue than Google Play in 2018

Despite a recent global decline in smartphone shipments that market researchers expect to get worse as vendors remain unable to entice faster upgrades, certain parts of the mobile industry are showing (almost) no signs of a slowdown whatsoever.

The number of smartphone and tablet gamers, for instance, is on the rise in North America, while according to fresh Sensor Tower estimates, mobile app spending around the world has jumped a healthy 22.7 percent year-on-year in 2018 to a combined App Store and Google Play total of $71.3 billion.

Unsurprisingly, Apple continues to run ...

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