It would have been hard to predict back in 2007 when the iPhone was revealed that it would spawn a massive app industry that would employ more than 130,000 people in Australia alone.
The Progressive Policy Institute’s report on the App Economy 2019 reveals the unexpected side effect that smartphone triggered.
Apple opened the App Store in 2008 with just 500 apps and changed the way people work, play, travel and meet.
Today the App Store is available in 155 countries with half a billion vis
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How thriving app economy is creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in Australia
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