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If I download Twitter then three updates that counts as one, not four.įor what anecdotal evidence is worth (not much) I don't know a single iPhone or iPod touch user who doesn't download and use third party apps and that includes people inside and outside of IT ranging in age from 10 to 40. One point of clarification which is worth noting - this figure is new app downloads, not updates. Personally I consider myself a prolific downloader and I don't have two hundred apps. While I'm sure that some people are doing that, I'm not convinced that enough are doing it to allow for a significant installed based doing nothing at all. If the suggestion that most people aren't really using third party apps is true then a small but significant number of people must be downloading hundreds and hundreds of apps each. That 14 billion apps equates to over 60 apps for every iOS device sold (.
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If you wish to say that $2 billion is irrelevant then we'll disagree on that (and it might be worth noting that in terms of box office receipts only one movie - Avatar - has ever made that in any case) but to put the scale in terms that relate to the mobile download market as opposed to some random unrelated market, sometime likely late this year app downloads will surpass iTunes music downloads (and to put that in context iTunes is the largest seller of music in the USA and has over 80% of the legal US music download market).

That has nothing to do with an "ecosystem".īut why are games not relevant? The question here is about whether an app ecosystem adds significant value to a platform for end users, the nature of that value (be it entertainment, productivity or whatever) is neither here nor there.
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Android is catching up, but iPhone users still spend a disproportionate amount of time using their phone's browser. At one point 99% of all mobile data was being used by Mobile Safari. Look at the stats on mobile data usage - until the iPhone came along, nobody really bothered to use their smartphone's browser because the experience was so unpleasant. Their rivals have been falling over each other to attract developers, when they should probably have been working on making the core features work better. I think Apple have been clever in perpetrating the myth that the App Store gives them an unassailable "ecosystem", but I think what really sold the iPhone was the fact that it's core features were so damned useable.

A lot of people in the comments are generalising from their own experience and that of their peers, which is just a classic geek mistake. People talk about apps, people show their friends, but most of the non-geeks I know don't actually use anything but the built in apps, a Twitter or Facebook app and Angry Birds. I'm very much of the opinion that apps were more effective as a viral marketing strategy than as a truly attractive feature. A significant proportion of iPhone and iPad users have downloaded less than a handful of apps. The iPhone had sold millions of units before the app store launched.
