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The App Store just blew through another record, even as Apple fights off complaints for deliberately slowing down older iPhones. 
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Together, iPhone and iPad users spent $300 million in the App Store on the first day of 2018 alone, Apple announced Thursday.。

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The company claims it set a new holiday record. "During the week starting on Christmas Eve, a record number of customers made purchases or downloaded apps from the App Store, spending over $890 million in that seven-day period," Apple said in a statement.。

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Thanks for signing up!。 It's also the third year in a row Apple has bragged about New Year's Day sales records. Last year, much of that success was fueled by Nintendo's。Super Mario Run
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, which helped push Apple's numbers to new highs of $240 million in purchases. 。

This year, it's less clear if there was one particular app that contributed to the App Store's new record. The top-grossing app in the App Store on January 1, was Tinder, according to data from App Annie.
。 Apple did, however, call out augmented reality apps that use its ARKit technology, including 。Apple did, however, call out augmented reality apps that use its ARKit technology, including。Pokémon Go。 , which was updated last month to be fully ARKit compatible. ( 。

Pokémon Go,

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which was #13 on the list of top-grossing apps, was also the only augmented reality app to be among the App Store's top 20 earners on New Year's Day.) 。

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It's not just the first day of 2018 that was record-breaking for the App Store, either. In a statement, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller said developers earned $26.5 billion in 2017, an increase of more than 30 percent compared with the previous year.
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