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Google takes on Game Center with Google Play game services

By Peter Cohen, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 a 4:10 pm

A significant announcement for game developers emerged from the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco this morning: Google officially launched Google Play game services, a framework to help facilitate social play, cloud-based storage of saved games and multiplayer gameplay. What's more, they're taking it to iOS - a challenge to Apple's own Game Kit frameworks, the technology that enables iOS games to tap into Apple's Game Center app.

App Store brought in 3.5 times more revenue than Google Play in 2012

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 a 3:24 pm

App Annie, a service that tracks revenue and growth for both the App Store and Google Play, has released their January 2013 index. Both marketplaces are doing very well and while Google Play saw more growth than the App Store, the App Store still managed to bring in over 3 times more than Google Play.

Iterate 37: The future of making and selling apps

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jan 14, 2013 a 3:22 pm

The Iterate roundtable returns with Seth Clifford, David Barnard, Marc Edwards, Russel Ivanovic, and Rene Ritchie discussing the economies and realties of making and selling apps on the iOS App Store and Android's Google Play.

iOS App Store generates more than double Google Play's revenue with fewer app downloads

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Jun 20, 2012 a 11:46 am

Analytics firm App Annie has recently published a fun little infographic called Game of Phones, which pits Android app ecosystem against Apple's. One of the key findings was that the App Store leads with a revenue share of 71% (compared to 29% for Android) even though total downloads through Google Play accounts for 35% of the total, versus 28% for iOS.