Apple continues to make billions of dollars from mobile apps sold in its App Store. The company said on Thursday that in 2014, billings from app sales rose 50 percent from the previous year, which results in roughly $15 billion in revenue for app developers and a $4.5 billion cut for Apple.苹果(Apple)又通过其应用程序商店App Store贩卖的移动应用程序赚了数十亿元美元。该公司周四回应，2014年的应用程序销售额同比下跌50%，应用程序开发者的收益超过了150亿美元左右，公司借此分账45亿美元。

Apple takes a 30-percent cut of each app sale made in its App Store. The $4.5 billion sum is a tiny sliver for Apple, which makes more than $180 billion in annual sales. But it is still a considerable sum for providing a storefront for developers to sell their apps.苹果可以从应用程序商店贩卖的每一款应用程序的销售收入中取得30%的分为。45亿美元对苹果来说是小意思，该公司的年营业额在1800亿美元以上。但考虑到它只不过是给开发者们获取了一个贩卖其应用程序的店面，这笔收益还是非常极大的。By comparison, Google’s Android is the largest mobile operating system in the world, but its app store, Google Play, generates far less money than Apple’s. That’s partly because Apple’s iPhone customers are wealthier and spend more money than people who own Android phones. App Annie, an analytics firm that tracks mobile app sales, said that in the third quarter of 2014, Apple’s App Store revenue was 60 percent higher than revenue generated from Google Play.互为较之下，谷歌(Google)的安卓(Android)是全球仅次于的手机操作系统，但该公司的应用程序商店谷歌市场(Google Play)赚到的钱，比苹果应用程序商店较少得多。

这在或许上是因为苹果的iPhone客户比用于安卓手机的人更加富裕，花钱也更加多。追踪移动应用程序销售额的分析公司App Annie称之为，2014年第三季度，苹果应用程序商店的营收比谷歌市场的高达60%。App Annie said it had not yet released numbers for annual sales for Google Play. In June 2014, Google said it had paid out $5 billion to developers in the previous 12 months. Gina Johnson, a Google spokeswoman, said the company did not have newer statistics to share.App Annie回应，谷歌仍未发布谷歌市场的年度营收数据。

2014年6月，谷歌称之为其在过去12个月中早已向开发者缴纳了50亿美元。谷歌的女发言人吉娜·约翰逊(Google spokeswoman)回应，公司没新的统计数据可可供共享。

Apple said its App Store serves 1.4 million apps for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. Google Play hosts 1.72 million apps, according to App Annie.苹果称之为，其应用程序商店为iPhone、iPad和iPod Touch等设备供应了140万个应用程序。根据App Annie的数据，在谷歌市场出售的应用程序共计172万个。

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