Though spending was up, there was another worrying sign about the overall health of the app ecosystem. This year, global app downloads were down by 2.3%, compared with 2023, reaching nearly 110 billion. This downward trend was seen across both app stores, the data indicates.
Those two numbers in the headline are incomparable, and almost complety uninformative.
They are not though, In app transactions is probably the reason.
The very least they could do is say how much the revenue changed vs. previous year.