About the App Store and Its Country Storefronts
The App Store is Apple's shop for software on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro, and its catalogue is open to read on the web at apps.apple.com without an Apple account. For a data buyer the first thing to understand is that it is not one store. The country selector lists 175 storefronts, and the two-letter code in the address - us, gb, de - decides nearly everything you see.
An app keeps one numeric id everywhere, but its name, subtitle, description and screenshots are localised, its price is set in the storefront currency, and its ratings are counted per storefront: an app with tens of millions of ratings in the United States shows a far smaller figure and a slightly different average in Germany. Reviews and chart positions are per storefront too, and some storefronts can be read in more than one language.
On the iPhone and iPad views the web store is organised into Today, Games, Apps and Arcade; a Platform switch leads to the Mac, Vision, Watch and TV views, which have tabs of their own. Today and the front pages of Apps and Games are editorial: stories, collections and editors' picks. Charts are the measured part - on iPhone and iPad, Top Free and Top Paid for every category from Books and Business to Utilities and Weather, and for every game genre from Action to Word.
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