The Russian app store RuStore has surpassed the App Store in the number of users in Russia, head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev told TASS. In 2024, Russians downloaded apps and games from RuStore more than 300 million times, the minister noted.
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“In two and a half years, RuStore has surpassed the American AppStore in terms of audience, the number of store installations has reached 80 million devices and 50 thousand applications are already available,” said Shadayev. According to him, about 30% of the applications in the Russian store are foreign; were downloaded by developers from China, Japan and the CIS countries.
The minister noted that RuStore is popular because it allows you to download applications from Russian banks and other programs “that are currently not available in foreign analog stores.” “Throughout the year, users downloaded apps and games more than 300 million times. Today we can say with confidence that together with VK and the industry we managed to create from scratch a successful, high-quality product that interests both users and companies,” Shadayev emphasized.
RuStore, developed by VK, is available on devices running Android, Harmony OS and Aurora operating systems. In early December, a representative of the app store told RB.RU that developers from China invested more than 60 million rubles between January and November in promoting games on the site. According to RuStore, in-store advertising spending by Chinese game studios in the third quarter increased fivefold compared to the first quarter, and the average bill increased by 40%.
In November, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Information Policy Committee, Anton Gorelkin, said that Russian authorities were negotiating with Apple to pre-install RuStore on the iPhone. The deputy emphasized that the American company “is interested in the appearance of RuStore on its devices.”
Gorelkin co-authored a bill that would force Apple and other technology makers to reinstall RuStore on devices sold in Russia. The State Duma adopted it in first reading on November 13. Deputies had until December 12 to present amendments to the second reading. The document was not considered in the second reading.
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