December was most profitable month for Apple's App Store with $3 billion in revenues

Apple's App Store, which feeds services and apps into its iOS products hit a high point back in December with US $3 billion in revenue and most of the sales went to games. January 1, 2017 saw $240 million in customer purchases which made that the app store's busiest single day ever.

In an Interview with The Verge, Apple's Marketing SVP Phil Schiller said December was the biggest month of sales in history for the App Store. Launched back in 2008, the App Store now has  2.2 million apps available. Developers have earned $20 billion dollars in 2016, up 40 percent from a year ago. Games ruled the App Store and Pokemon GO was still the most popular and downloaded application as the most downloaded app of 2016.

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Pokémon Card sold at Public Auction for over $54K

 

A mint condition example of the elusive Pokémon "Pikachu Illustrator" trading card sold for a world record $54,970 during a public auction of comics and comic art held by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, November 18, 2016. 

“The Pikachu Illustrator Card was given in January of 1998 to winners of the CoroCoro Comic Illustration Contest,” said Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations for Comics at Heritage Auctions. “Only 20-39 copies of this card were released, 10 of which are graded in top condition and it is unknown how many still remain with the public.”

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