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"Apple has announced that customers of its App Store spent more than $1 billion in December alone, and more than $10 billion across the whole of 2013.\r\n\r\nThe company announced the mammoth figures today, noting that it means iOS developers have now earned more than $15 billion through the App Store. These figures were obviously given a bit of a boost approaching Christmas, as in December alone nearly 3 billion apps were downloaded from the App Store.\r\n\r\nSome of the surprise hits from across the year included Heads Up, Moves\u00A0and Impossible Road, and then of course there were the runaway successes like\u00A0Candy Crush Saga, Puzzles &amp;amp;amp; Dragons, Minecraft\u00A0and\u00A0QuizUp. In total, there are more than one million apps available to download from the App Store. iPad-specific apps are now around the 500,000 mark, Apple said.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013\r\n\r\nFeatured Image Credit - Neil Bird/Flickr"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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