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However they may Apple and Google seem at first glance to be irreconcilable competitors, the reality is, as is often the case with technology giants, a little different. As we wrote recently, For example, Google pays Applu paid a lot of money to have it as the default search engine on his devicesA newly published report from last month suggests that the connection between the two companies has another level – Google was the most popular developer on the platform in October. iOSAnd he didn't place badly either. Microsoft

Somewhat ironically, the analytical platform Sensor Tower has just published results. According to them, Google was the most popular app developer in October of this year, both on its "home" Play Store and on App StoreOverall, a company that, among other things, is behind its biggest competitor iOS, i.e. Android, saw more than 282 million downloads of its own apps on both platforms last month. The number of downloads exclusively on iOS published report, although nestanovated, but it was probably enough for Google to take first place in this ranking as well.

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Source: SensorTower

But Google's position is not surprising at all. Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Photos, but also YouTube, which is also part of the company's portfolio, are also on the list. iOS among the most popular apps in the long term. And the other places in the ranking are not surprising either – including Microsoftu, which in the case App Store took fourth place overall. It is the giant from Redmond who also iOS offers a wide range of applications, for example Office 365, from Wordfrom to OneDriveHowever, it should be noted that this phenomenon does not occur in the opposite direction – although Apple for example, it publishes its own for the Play Store Apple Music, you would be hard-pressed to find him on the list of most popular Android developers.

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