The App Store experienced record sales during the holidays, with users spending the most in history

Apple's services are growing year by year, and the company looked back on a very successful 2019 in a special press release, in which it published several interesting pieces of information related to services and earnings from them. 2019 was indeed a huge success for Apple in this regard, and it could be even better this year.

In addition to the classic sauce of how the past year was a success from a service perspective, how Apple brought several new services and platforms to market, and how the company continued to work to strictly protect the privacy and information of its users, the press release made several specific points, which are really interesting and only confirm that the focus on Apple services is paying off and will pay off more and more.

• From Christmas to the New Year, Apple users globally spent $1,42 billion on the App Store, which is 16% more than during the same period last year. During the first day of this year alone, 386 million dollars were purchased in the App Store, which is a year-on-year increase of 20%.
• More than 50% of Apple Music users have already tried out the new karaoke-like synchronized text feature that arrived in Apple Music last year as part of iOS 13.
• The Apple TV+ service was a "historic success" as it was the first completely new service to receive several nominations at the Golden Globes in its first year. At the same time, it is the first service of this type, which started functioning in more than a hundred countries at once.
• The Apple News service, which according to Apple is used by more than 100 million users from the US, Great Britain, Australia and Canada, also performed well.
• Apple also boasted of a partnership with ABC News that will see Apple News cover the upcoming US presidential election.
• Podcasts are now offered by over 800 authors from 155 countries.
• This year, there should be a significant expansion of Apple Pay support in urban public transport around the world.
• More than 75% of iCloud users have their account secured with two-factor authentication.

According to Tim Cook, all segments falling under services were record profitable in the past year. In terms of net income, Apple Services could be compared to the Fortune 70 companies. Due to Apple's long-term strategy, the importance of services will continue to grow, and this whole segment can be expected to grow as well.

Source: MacRumors