App store Apple TV receives 200 apps every week: study – CNET in Spanish

The new app store Apple TV continues to grow by leaps and bounds.

The AppFigures analysis platform applications this week released an analysis of the App Store for the box of streaming video, concluding that, on average, the app store grows by 200 new applications every week.

AppFigures also says that the store already has about 2,600 applications, a remarkable figure considering it is a relatively young platform. The App Store was available with the Apple TV in late October.

For the first days of November, a developer reported that the store already had about 1,000 apps.

AppFigures added that the games category is the most successful, accounting for 38 percent of all available applications. This figure was seconded by Eddy Cue, vice president of software and services online at Apple, in an interview with BuzzFeed News, saying that the store already has “more than 2,000″ apps and confirmed the success of the category of gaming.

Cue also said that Apple itself is surprised by the growth of the category of games on the Apple TV, since the phenomenon is similar to what happened with the iPhone in its infancy and mentioned that Apple TV is for Gamers casual. “I think a large majority of people around the world do not want to buy an Xbox or PlayStation. But that does not mean you do not enjoy playing. I think the Apple TV expands the video game market for those people,” Cue told publication.

AppFigures The report indicates that in terms of downloads, games not take the crown as entertainment apps are the most downloaded; a category that also grows in number represented my second in growth within the store.

As for monetization, AppFigures reveals that only 39 percent of apps are paydays. The other apps are free, although some include purchases within the app. Also AppFigures says prices of apps, but are as low as US $ 2.99, there are others that can cost up to US $ 59.99.

Apple is paying attention to the App Store Apple TV be its smallest setting – until now. The box of streaming this week received an update to version 9.1 operating system TVOS; an update that arrived while an update for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac computers.

A new app Remote

Eddy Cue BuzzFeed mentioned that Apple already working in a new version of Remote app. The application currently runs to convert the iPhone into a remote control and from there execute actions on Apple TV or iTunes on a Mac.

However, Cue said added to the next version of app function said Siri voice commands; something only available to control Apple TV. This new version of the app come in the first half of 2016, said the executive.

Recently, rumors of a new Apple TV also began to emerge, although it is very unlikely that Apple is already thinking of launching a fifth generation of the box when its latest product has just over two months on the market. According GforGames, the new Apple TV will enter production in the second quarter of 2016.

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