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These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net)
Today comScore released its 2017 US Mobile App Report, which among other things, lists the top mobile apps in the nation. From a report: Between smartphones and tablets, Americans spend more than half of their digital media consumption time -- 57 percent -- in apps, according to the report. That's about the same as a year ago -- evidence that the dramatic shift to mobile has now leveled out in the U.S. These are the winners, according to comScore, as measured by their penetration of the U.S. mobile app audience: Facebook (81 percent), YouTube (71 percent), Facebook Messenger (68 percent), Google Search (61 percent), Google Maps (57 percent), Instagram (50 percent), Snapchat (50 percent), Google Play (47 percent), Gmail (44 percent), and Pandora (41 percent). 8 out of 10 apps here are owned by Facebook and Google.
I didn't even know it was optional. At least on Android devices it appears built-in and difficult to remove or disable, if not impossible.
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Never used it. I am not on there at all, never have been. I don't want to sell my personal information to that company.
I've used it maybe 10 times in the past year, mostly to watch videos of car repair techniques while I'm working on my car.
Never used it. Why is it a separate app from facebook?
Mostly I use this to entertain my son when we're waiting. My voice recognition calls it up automatically and then I'll usually ask it "how much wood can a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood"?
This I do use a lot, generally at least once a week.
Never used it. I can't even fathom a good reason to.
Not even sure what this is. Is it better than a regular chat?
Does that include the Play store where I download other apps? Otherwise I've never used it.
I prefer the regular android mail app, though I've used the gmail app once or twice this year for times when I needed a more extensive search and didn't have my laptop handy
Never used it. My battery drains quickly enough without streaming music.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
What will your app do that can't be done in a browser? Arguably, most of these apps do something with the device's hardware that the browser doesn't have access to (except Facebook).
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Look at all these apps.... That I never use or even have on my devices. I guess I'm not hip with what the kids use these days.
I use Pokemon Go, Twitter, and OneBusAway way more often than any of that p3rvvv stuff you say are the top 10.
Have them all set with no permission to run when not active window.
Google Maps is only when an event is launched and I don't know where it is. Only reason I use it is Apple Maps kept telling me things were in the middle of the Salish Sea, so I stopped using it.
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They come with most (all?) Android-based smartphones. I have the google apps on my phone, but I don't use them. Did they count in this survey?
Only the USA.
8 out of 10 apps here are owned by Facebook and Google.
10 out of 10 apps have privacy issues.
People don't care about privacy.
Many of these are run on an OS developed by an ad company. Nice.
How is Pandora #10 on the list, when I keep reading about how Pandora is struggling against competition from Apple and Spotify?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Or for that matter, Phone? Music? Photo?
The built-in apps seem pretty popular. I can't fathom key built-in apps being less popular than installed apps.
I'm surprised they named them. Usually it's just some useless bullshit about backdoored apps whose names much remain secret.
A top 10 installed app list and WhatsApp is not on there, I call it BS
I've had an iPhone and a couple of Android phones. I feel like just carrying the thing is a risk. I understand that no matter what phone I carry the carrier is going to triangulate my position. However, I don't need apps sniffing my passwords, doing speech-to-text or recording my every word to send to Chinese spammers & marketdroids, or pushing ads in my face. I went back to using a crap Symbian phone (Phillips Xenium) with a 3 week battery life, no ability to even run an "app", and very basic features only. For whatever reason, call me a luddite if you wish, but phone apps (and to a lesser extent web-apps with some notable exceptions) are hard to take seriously. I laugh at them a lot and the word "pathetic" gets used a lot. People who walk around with their faces stuck in Instagram or whatever all day remind me of Zombies. They walk half-speed mumbling to themselves and running into walls and other people. No thanks. If this is the future of computing then I'm glad I'm into retro computing, 'cause this "future" really sucks.
you feel me?
going by battery usage:
pokemon go
twitter
youtube
starbucks
How do they get these numbers?
Just me personally...
Facebook: don't have installed
Youtube: use a lot
FB Messenger: don't have installed
Google Search App: don't have installed
Google maps: use rarely
Instagram: use a lot
snapchat: very heavy use
Google Play: use rarely
Gmail: use a lot
pandora: don't have installed
That google maps is no 100 percent.
Holy fucking shit. Apple's web browser was THE killer app for the first iPhone. It was what made smartphones acceptable to the masses. It was the first thing anyone would show me, where I'd say "ok, I gotta admit that's pretty slick."
And now it's not even in the top 10. (Though on my mobile, I use it more than any of the top ten.) Are we at the point where they say "in Korea, only old people use the web"?
That's funny, I don't see any of those installed on anything I own. /hipsterapphater
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
So how exactly do they measure this? I'm not giving some marketing agency my contact information to find out.
That's the best one.
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Ohh, are one outrageous dude, you're totally in my face.
Glad to see Pandora on the list. I've always liked Pandora and hope it never dies. Although, I let my Pandora One membership lapse a few years ago when they stopped allowing a full year's payment at one time (which they've since resumed). Since then, I've upped with Spotify. I'm still trying to decide which I like better.
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I imagine some people use Facebook only for the "Connect with Facebook" buttons on other websites. When Spotify first entered the United States market, it outsourced its login for that market to Facebook. The comment section on HuffPost also uses Facebook login.
What will your app do that can't be done in a browser?
Run with JavaScript turned off, for one. A lot of native apps do things that would be very clunky if link navigation and form submission are the only possible means of interaction.
Also run offline. Apple WebKit, the engine of all web browsers for iOS, lacks support for Service Workers.
The app can report your GPS location, phone number, and other informatics back to the app developer and their advertising partners.
Why would a consumer want that?
In order not to have to set up yet another recurring $4/mo subscription, which is what WIRED and The Atlantic require of visitors who attempt to read their articles with Firefox tracking protection or the Disconnect extension enabled.
What about that app that puts the time of day on my lockscreen? That's the one I really use. It bears a little scrutiny when the functionality is ubiquitous, but there aren't a dozen different ways to do the same thing.
#1 No facebook acccount, so don't use that one.
#2 Don't watch videos on my phone
#3 See #1
#4 Yep, use that one
#5 Sometimes use that one
#6 No Instagram account
#7 No Snapchat
#8 Only for downloads, not any other services
#9 Yep
#10 Only on my desktop
The #1 app I use on my device is the contact list.
Because they all suck - except for Google Maps, which I rarely use and usually location is turned off on.
It's not a case of an app that can't run on an Android phone. I got an iPod Nano for use in my car. The car navigation system includes an iPod player, which only works w/ iOS devices. I could play songs on the phone via bluetooth, but I can't control them much from the steering or on the dashboard screen aside from volume control or skipping songs. I'd have to start a playlist before a trip, and also, if I switch from phone to radio, the Android phone doesn't pause, it just assumes that it has a different speaker output.
The advantage of the iPod player is that one can on the screen see the list of songs and playlists, select them, and if one switches from song to, say a phonecall during driving, or to the radio, the iPod pauses and resumes the next time it is invoked. That said, I don't see tepples' point of tethering an iPod Touch to an Android phone: all the data that it needs, such as the music or games, should already be there on the storage.