Apple CEO Tim Cook was recently interviewed by Tencent on the state of Apple in China. Cook said that there currently are 1.5 million developers in China and that Apple is working to encourage more people to develop apps for iOS.

Chinese developers have earned a total of $4 million from 230,000 iOS apps. Apple executives have previously said that China has downloaded the most apps globally from the Apple store.

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus both performed extremely well in the Chinese market last year, in both sales and app purchases. Chinese users tend to favor mobile games and social apps. It is predicted that mobile game sales will increase even more in popularity with the release of the iPhone 6s and its 3D touch technology.

Apple has created 4.4 million jobs in China: 1.4 million in software development, and 3 million in production. Apple also employs 10,000 corporate employees within China.

The software giant now has 24 retail stores in Mainland China. Cook said that the company will open its 25th store this weekend in Dalian.

China is now Apple’s biggest market outside the U.S., and the company hopes to reach 40 stores in China by the middle of next year.

Source: inews.qq.com

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