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Apple's Swift Playgrounds inspires Chinese programmers

By Liu Zheng in San Francisco (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2016-06-14 11:18

Apple's Swift Playgrounds inspires Chinese programmers

Nine-year-old Anvitha Vijay (C), the youngest developer to attend the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, poses for a group photo after the keynote in San Francisco, California, US, June 13, 2016.[Photo/Agencies]

According to Apple statistics, as of October 2015, there were more than a million Chinese developers working on Apple's software platforms and the figure jumped 50 percent compared with 2014.

The profit share of Chinese developers on Apple Store reached $5 billion by the early 2016. Chinese developers have created 270,000 apps on Apple Store and the Greater China region ranks number one in the world in the number of apps downloaded.

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