China helps iOS maintain commanding revenue lead over surging Google Play

We’ve done this boogie before: Google Play is absolutely demolishing iOS’s App Store when it comes to sheer download numbers, but iOS is still making way more money.

And Google Play really is surging. That Android app market had 85 percent more app downloads (both games and other apps) than iOS in the second quarter of the year, according to industry-tracking firm App Annie. That’s up from the 70 percent lead Google Play had in Q1 2015. This was once again due to emerging markets like Brazil, India, and Vietnam adopting Android handsets.