The failure of App Store last week cost most applications 10% of their downloads.

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According to TechCrunch, Apple's influence in global app distribution is unparalleled. As long as Apple sneezes, other companies will catch a cold. During the search failure of Apple's App Store last week, about 65 per cent of apps lost more than 10 per cent of downloads and 15 per cent lost more than 50 per cent of downloads, according to research firm Tune.

­these figures show the importance of the App Store search function, after all, the store's "ranking" and "boutique recommendation" functions have not been affected by the glitch.

­App Store currently has more than 1.5 million apps, and looking for apps by browsing the rankings is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

­the failure occurred on the 5th of this month and lasted for about several hours. According to Apple's online service status page, the failure affected all Apple users, with the same error in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States, Australia and other places.

­to track the impact of the failure, Tune counted the number of iPhone app downloads in the United States on the day of the failure and compared them with the downloads in the past three days to obtain the above data. (compile / sail)