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Wall Street Journal: The App Economy and Apple

  • January 6, 2016
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

Daisuke Wakabayashi of The Wall Street Journal mentions data collected by PPI’s Michael Mandel, that analyzes America’s app economy, in his analysis of Apple:

Apple said the business of creating apps for its products has created and supported—directly and indirectly—1.9 million jobs in the U.S., nearly three-quarters of them for app creators, software engineers and entrepreneurs. Those estimates are based on research, partly sponsored by Apple, by the Progressive Policy Institute.

Read the article in its entirety at the Wall Street Journal.

 

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