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The word \"profit\" does not appear in the report.<blockquote>根据苹果聘请的第三方研究机构 Analysis Group 的数据，去年 App Store 生态系统“促进”了 6,430 亿美元的全球账单和销售额，比 2019 年的 5,190 亿美元增长了 24%<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(苹果)$</a>进行30页的报告。报告中没有出现“利润”一词。</blockquote> The independent study, done with the cooperation of Apple in conjunction with the company's World Wide Developers Conference, or WWDC, next week, offered another snapshot of the economic behemoth whose revenue and profitability was a fiercely guarded secret during Apple's contentious antitrust case v. Epic Games Inc. The maker of Fortnite contends the 12-year-old App Store is a money-gouging monopoly that has enriched Apple with billions of dollars in profits at the expense of developers.<blockquote>这项独立研究是与苹果合作完成的，并配合该公司下周的全球开发者大会（WWDC），提供了这家经济巨头的另一个快照，在苹果诉Epic Games Inc.的有争议的反垄断案中，该公司的收入和盈利能力是一个严格保守的秘密。《堡垒之夜》的创作者认为，这家已有 12 年历史的应用商店是一个骗钱的垄断企业，它以牺牲开发者的利益为代价，为苹果带来了数十亿美元的利润。</blockquote> Apple has never revealed revenue nor profit from the App Store, and figures it did provide an Epic expert witness were kept hidden from public view. The witness, Ned Barnes of the Berkeley Research Group, suggested that the App Store has profit margin approaching 80%, though Apple executives disputed that figure in testimony.<blockquote>苹果从未透露过 App Store 的收入或利润，而且它确实提供了史诗般的专家证人的数据也被隐藏起来，不让公众看到。伯克利研究小组的证人Ned Barnes表示，App Store的利润率接近80%，尽管苹果高管在证词中对这一数字提出了质疑。</blockquote> Throughout the 3-week trial, Apple executives up to Chief Executive Tim Cook insisted they did not know if the App Store is profitable. Calculating P&amp;L, they said, was difficult because of the billions of dollars they spend on research and development, and the intricacies of the App Store's structure and payment systems.<blockquote>在为期 3 周的试验中，苹果高管，包括首席执行官蒂姆·库克 (Tim Cook)，都坚称他们不知道 App Store 是否盈利。他们说，计算损益表很困难，因为他们在研发上花费了数十亿美元，而且 App Store 的结构和支付系统错综复杂。</blockquote> The Analysis Group study pointedly concluded that about 90% of the $643 billion in billings and sales world-wide occurred outside of the App Store, and Apple collected no commission on those sales. China led the way with $300 billion, most of that through sales of physical goods and services using mobile payments, followed by the U.S. ($175 billion), Europe ($74 billion), and the rest of the world ($94 billion).<blockquote>分析小组的研究尖锐地得出结论，全球6430亿美元的账单和销售额中，约90%发生在App Store之外，苹果没有从这些销售中收取任何佣金。中国以3000亿美元领先，其中大部分是通过使用移动支付销售实物商品和服务，其次是美国（1750亿美元）、欧洲（740亿美元）和世界其他地区（940亿美元）。</blockquote> Specifically, billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem increased by 24% to $124 billion in 2020, the study found. While the digital goods and services category grew 41% to $86 billion during the pandemic, physical goods and services improved 24% to $511 billion. Travel and ride-hailing categories -- subsets of physical goods and services -- slumped a collective 30%. (Travel totaled $38 billion in 2020; ride-hailing was $26 billion.)<blockquote>研究发现，具体来说，2020 年 App Store 生态系统促进的账单和销售额增长了 24%，达到 1240 亿美元。在疫情期间，数字商品和服务类别增长了41%，达到860亿美元，而实体商品和服务增长了24%，达到5110亿美元。旅游和叫车类别（实物商品和服务的子集）集体下跌了 30%。（2020 年旅游业总额为 380 亿美元；网约车为 260 亿美元。）</blockquote> Epic vs. Apple: The (predicted) verdict is in<blockquote>史诗 vs. 苹果：（预测的）判决出炉</blockquote> The researchers specifically stated that the closest figure they provided to App Store revenue -- the total amount of digital goods and services sold through apps -- was not actually analogous to that figure for Apple. The researchers included app revenue for services that were not purchased through the App Store but were used on Apple devices, and did not include enterprise-software revenue even if those apps were used on the devices.<blockquote>研究人员特别指出，他们提供的最接近应用商店收入的数字——通过应用销售的数字商品和服务总量——实际上与苹果的数字并不相似。研究人员包括了不是通过App Store购买但在苹果设备上使用的服务的应用收入，即使这些应用在设备上使用，也不包括企业软件收入。</blockquote> Throughout the report, Apple played up the importance of small businesses on the App Store, which constitute more than 90% of all developers on the App Store. It says the number of small developers swelled 40% between 2015 and 2020.<blockquote>在整个报告中，苹果强调了小企业在App Store上的重要性，小企业占App Store所有开发者的90%以上。报告称，2015 年至 2020 年间，小型开发商的数量增长了 40%。</blockquote> Analysis Group highlighted the work of developers <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SNAP\">Snap Inc</a>., media company Stitcher, and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BMBL\">Bumble Inc.</a> (BMBL), a dating app that is a rival of vocal Apple critic Match Group Inc. <blockquote>分析小组强调了开发人员的工作<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SNAP\">Snap公司</a>媒体公司Stitcher和<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BMBL\">邦布尔公司。</a>（BMBL），一款约会应用，是苹果评论家Match Group Inc.的竞争对手。</blockquote> The success of small developers, most of whom pay from nothing to a 15% commission fee to distribute apps over the vast App Store platform, offer a contrast to larger developers such as Epic, Match, Microsoft Corp., Spotify Technology, and Nvidia Corp. who have complained about the store's 30% commission fees as well as restrictive technology requirements.<blockquote>小型开发商的成功与Epic、Match、微软、Spotify Technology和Nvidia Corp.等大型开发商形成了鲜明对比，他们抱怨商店30%的佣金以及限制性的技术要求。</blockquote> The Analysis Group report adds another opaque layer to the mystery of just how much revenue, and profit, is generated by the App Store.<blockquote>分析小组的报告为 App Store 究竟产生了多少收入和利润的谜团又增加了一层不透明的层。</blockquote> Last year, Apple reported the earnings it paid to developers was about $39 billion world-wide in 2019, though it did not provide a similar figure for 2020. All told, the figure is well north of $100 billion since the App Store's launch in 2008.<blockquote>去年，苹果报告称，2019 年全球向开发商支付的收入约为 390 亿美元，但没有提供 2020 年的类似数字。总而言之，自 2008 年 App Store 推出以来，这一数字已远远超过 1000 亿美元。</blockquote> The company has often referred to the App Store as an \"economic miracle\" and openly boasted about its success in a series of news releases that highlighted its contribution to the U.S. economy ($350 billion) ,jobs creation (300,000 new U.S. jobs), and theApp Store ecosystem ($519 billion in&nbsp;billings and sales world-wide in 2019).<blockquote>该公司经常将 App Store 称为“经济奇迹”，并在一系列新闻稿中公开吹嘘其成功，强调其对美国经济（3500 亿美元）、创造就业机会（美国新增 30 万个就业岗位）和 App Store 生态系统（2019 年全球账单和销售额为 5190 亿美元）。</blockquote>","source":"lsy1603348471595","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>As Epic fight puts all eyes on App Store revenue, Apple offers numbers that aim much larger<blockquote>随着 Epic fight 将所有目光都集中在 App Store 收入上，苹果提供的数据目标更大</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The word \"profit\" does not appear in the report.<blockquote>根据苹果聘请的第三方研究机构 Analysis Group 的数据，去年 App Store 生态系统“促进”了 6,430 亿美元的全球账单和销售额，比 2019 年的 5,190 亿美元增长了 24%<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">$(苹果)$</a>进行30页的报告。报告中没有出现“利润”一词。</blockquote> The independent study, done with the cooperation of Apple in conjunction with the company's World Wide Developers Conference, or WWDC, next week, offered another snapshot of the economic behemoth whose revenue and profitability was a fiercely guarded secret during Apple's contentious antitrust case v. Epic Games Inc. The maker of Fortnite contends the 12-year-old App Store is a money-gouging monopoly that has enriched Apple with billions of dollars in profits at the expense of developers.<blockquote>这项独立研究是与苹果合作完成的，并配合该公司下周的全球开发者大会（WWDC），提供了这家经济巨头的另一个快照，在苹果诉Epic Games Inc.的有争议的反垄断案中，该公司的收入和盈利能力是一个严格保守的秘密。《堡垒之夜》的创作者认为，这家已有 12 年历史的应用商店是一个骗钱的垄断企业，它以牺牲开发者的利益为代价，为苹果带来了数十亿美元的利润。</blockquote> Apple has never revealed revenue nor profit from the App Store, and figures it did provide an Epic expert witness were kept hidden from public view. The witness, Ned Barnes of the Berkeley Research Group, suggested that the App Store has profit margin approaching 80%, though Apple executives disputed that figure in testimony.<blockquote>苹果从未透露过 App Store 的收入或利润，而且它确实提供了史诗般的专家证人的数据也被隐藏起来，不让公众看到。伯克利研究小组的证人Ned Barnes表示，App Store的利润率接近80%，尽管苹果高管在证词中对这一数字提出了质疑。</blockquote> Throughout the 3-week trial, Apple executives up to Chief Executive Tim Cook insisted they did not know if the App Store is profitable. Calculating P&amp;L, they said, was difficult because of the billions of dollars they spend on research and development, and the intricacies of the App Store's structure and payment systems.<blockquote>在为期 3 周的试验中，苹果高管，包括首席执行官蒂姆·库克 (Tim Cook)，都坚称他们不知道 App Store 是否盈利。他们说，计算损益表很困难，因为他们在研发上花费了数十亿美元，而且 App Store 的结构和支付系统错综复杂。</blockquote> The Analysis Group study pointedly concluded that about 90% of the $643 billion in billings and sales world-wide occurred outside of the App Store, and Apple collected no commission on those sales. China led the way with $300 billion, most of that through sales of physical goods and services using mobile payments, followed by the U.S. ($175 billion), Europe ($74 billion), and the rest of the world ($94 billion).<blockquote>分析小组的研究尖锐地得出结论，全球6430亿美元的账单和销售额中，约90%发生在App Store之外，苹果没有从这些销售中收取任何佣金。中国以3000亿美元领先，其中大部分是通过使用移动支付销售实物商品和服务，其次是美国（1750亿美元）、欧洲（740亿美元）和世界其他地区（940亿美元）。</blockquote> Specifically, billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem increased by 24% to $124 billion in 2020, the study found. While the digital goods and services category grew 41% to $86 billion during the pandemic, physical goods and services improved 24% to $511 billion. Travel and ride-hailing categories -- subsets of physical goods and services -- slumped a collective 30%. (Travel totaled $38 billion in 2020; ride-hailing was $26 billion.)<blockquote>研究发现，具体来说，2020 年 App Store 生态系统促进的账单和销售额增长了 24%，达到 1240 亿美元。在疫情期间，数字商品和服务类别增长了41%，达到860亿美元，而实体商品和服务增长了24%，达到5110亿美元。旅游和叫车类别（实物商品和服务的子集）集体下跌了 30%。（2020 年旅游业总额为 380 亿美元；网约车为 260 亿美元。）</blockquote> Epic vs. Apple: The (predicted) verdict is in<blockquote>史诗 vs. 苹果：（预测的）判决出炉</blockquote> The researchers specifically stated that the closest figure they provided to App Store revenue -- the total amount of digital goods and services sold through apps -- was not actually analogous to that figure for Apple. The researchers included app revenue for services that were not purchased through the App Store but were used on Apple devices, and did not include enterprise-software revenue even if those apps were used on the devices.<blockquote>研究人员特别指出，他们提供的最接近应用商店收入的数字——通过应用销售的数字商品和服务总量——实际上与苹果的数字并不相似。研究人员包括了不是通过App Store购买但在苹果设备上使用的服务的应用收入，即使这些应用在设备上使用，也不包括企业软件收入。</blockquote> Throughout the report, Apple played up the importance of small businesses on the App Store, which constitute more than 90% of all developers on the App Store. It says the number of small developers swelled 40% between 2015 and 2020.<blockquote>在整个报告中，苹果强调了小企业在App Store上的重要性，小企业占App Store所有开发者的90%以上。报告称，2015 年至 2020 年间，小型开发商的数量增长了 40%。</blockquote> Analysis Group highlighted the work of developers <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SNAP\">Snap Inc</a>., media company Stitcher, and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BMBL\">Bumble Inc.</a> (BMBL), a dating app that is a rival of vocal Apple critic Match Group Inc. <blockquote>分析小组强调了开发人员的工作<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SNAP\">Snap公司</a>媒体公司Stitcher和<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BMBL\">邦布尔公司。</a>（BMBL），一款约会应用，是苹果评论家Match Group Inc.的竞争对手。</blockquote> The success of small developers, most of whom pay from nothing to a 15% commission fee to distribute apps over the vast App Store platform, offer a contrast to larger developers such as Epic, Match, Microsoft Corp., Spotify Technology, and Nvidia Corp. who have complained about the store's 30% commission fees as well as restrictive technology requirements.<blockquote>小型开发商的成功与Epic、Match、微软、Spotify Technology和Nvidia Corp.等大型开发商形成了鲜明对比，他们抱怨商店30%的佣金以及限制性的技术要求。</blockquote> The Analysis Group report adds another opaque layer to the mystery of just how much revenue, and profit, is generated by the App Store.<blockquote>分析小组的报告为 App Store 究竟产生了多少收入和利润的谜团又增加了一层不透明的层。</blockquote> Last year, Apple reported the earnings it paid to developers was about $39 billion world-wide in 2019, though it did not provide a similar figure for 2020. All told, the figure is well north of $100 billion since the App Store's launch in 2008.<blockquote>去年，苹果报告称，2019 年全球向开发商支付的收入约为 390 亿美元，但没有提供 2020 年的类似数字。总而言之，自 2008 年 App Store 推出以来，这一数字已远远超过 1000 亿美元。</blockquote> The company has often referred to the App Store as an \"economic miracle\" and openly boasted about its success in a series of news releases that highlighted its contribution to the U.S. economy ($350 billion) ,jobs creation (300,000 new U.S. jobs), and theApp Store ecosystem ($519 billion in&nbsp;billings and sales world-wide in 2019).<blockquote>该公司经常将 App Store 称为“经济奇迹”，并在一系列新闻稿中公开吹嘘其成功，强调其对美国经济（3500 亿美元）、创造就业机会（美国新增 30 万个就业岗位）和 App Store 生态系统（2019 年全球账单和销售额为 5190 亿美元）。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/as-epic-fight-puts-all-eyes-on-app-store-revenue-apple-offers-numbers-that-aim-much-larger-11622653992?mod=home-page\">MarketWatch</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"EPOR":"Epic Corp.","AAPL":"苹果"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/as-epic-fight-puts-all-eyes-on-app-store-revenue-apple-offers-numbers-that-aim-much-larger-11622653992?mod=home-page","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2140444382","content_text":"After keeping actual App Store figures from public view during antitrust trial, researchers paid by Apple report that App Store 'facilitated' sales of more than $600 billion in 2020 and avoid any mention of the word 'profit'\nApple Inc. revealed Wednesday a study it commissioned from researchers detailing the scope of the App Store.\nAmid scrutiny from regulators and developers, Apple Inc. gave numbers on Wednesday that illustrate the immense size and scope of the App Store, but again avoided providing hard figures for revenue and profit from the online marketplace.\nThe App Store ecosystem \"facilitated\" $643 billion in global billings and sales last year, up 24% from $519 billion in 2019, according to Analysis Group, a third-party research organization hired by Apple $(AAPL)$ to conduct the 30-page report. The word \"profit\" does not appear in the report.\nThe independent study, done with the cooperation of Apple in conjunction with the company's World Wide Developers Conference, or WWDC, next week, offered another snapshot of the economic behemoth whose revenue and profitability was a fiercely guarded secret during Apple's contentious antitrust case v. Epic Games Inc. The maker of Fortnite contends the 12-year-old App Store is a money-gouging monopoly that has enriched Apple with billions of dollars in profits at the expense of developers.\nApple has never revealed revenue nor profit from the App Store, and figures it did provide an Epic expert witness were kept hidden from public view. The witness, Ned Barnes of the Berkeley Research Group, suggested that the App Store has profit margin approaching 80%, though Apple executives disputed that figure in testimony.\nThroughout the 3-week trial, Apple executives up to Chief Executive Tim Cook insisted they did not know if the App Store is profitable. Calculating P&L, they said, was difficult because of the billions of dollars they spend on research and development, and the intricacies of the App Store's structure and payment systems.\nThe Analysis Group study pointedly concluded that about 90% of the $643 billion in billings and sales world-wide occurred outside of the App Store, and Apple collected no commission on those sales. China led the way with $300 billion, most of that through sales of physical goods and services using mobile payments, followed by the U.S. ($175 billion), Europe ($74 billion), and the rest of the world ($94 billion).\nSpecifically, billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem increased by 24% to $124 billion in 2020, the study found. While the digital goods and services category grew 41% to $86 billion during the pandemic, physical goods and services improved 24% to $511 billion. Travel and ride-hailing categories -- subsets of physical goods and services -- slumped a collective 30%. (Travel totaled $38 billion in 2020; ride-hailing was $26 billion.)\nEpic vs. Apple: The (predicted) verdict is in\nThe researchers specifically stated that the closest figure they provided to App Store revenue -- the total amount of digital goods and services sold through apps -- was not actually analogous to that figure for Apple. The researchers included app revenue for services that were not purchased through the App Store but were used on Apple devices, and did not include enterprise-software revenue even if those apps were used on the devices.\nThroughout the report, Apple played up the importance of small businesses on the App Store, which constitute more than 90% of all developers on the App Store. It says the number of small developers swelled 40% between 2015 and 2020.\nAnalysis Group highlighted the work of developers Snap Inc., media company Stitcher, and Bumble Inc. (BMBL), a dating app that is a rival of vocal Apple critic Match Group Inc. \nThe success of small developers, most of whom pay from nothing to a 15% commission fee to distribute apps over the vast App Store platform, offer a contrast to larger developers such as Epic, Match, Microsoft Corp., Spotify Technology, and Nvidia Corp. who have complained about the store's 30% commission fees as well as restrictive technology requirements.\nThe Analysis Group report adds another opaque layer to the mystery of just how much revenue, and profit, is generated by the App Store.\nLast year, Apple reported the earnings it paid to developers was about $39 billion world-wide in 2019, though it did not provide a similar figure for 2020. All told, the figure is well north of $100 billion since the App Store's launch in 2008.\nThe company has often referred to the App Store as an \"economic miracle\" and openly boasted about its success in a series of news releases that highlighted its contribution to the U.S. economy ($350 billion) ,jobs creation (300,000 new U.S. jobs), and theApp Store ecosystem ($519 billion in billings and sales world-wide in 2019).","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"AAPL":0.9,"EPOR":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":512,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":4,"subscribersOnly":false,"subscribersOnlyAccessible":false,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/118946407"}