Apple Just Dropped Some Mind-Bending Statistics About its App Store The App Store is the only way to download apps on any Apple device, meaning that on any given day it can get millions of visits. On Thursday, Apple announced some statistics about the App Store with staggering numbers. On January 1, 2018, more than $300 million in purchases were made. Every week, over 500,000,000 people use the App Store. iOS developers (aka the app makers) were paid $26.5 billion in 2017 and have been paid $86 billion since the App Store launched in 2008.