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These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the what-we-do-on-our-phones dept.

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.

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  1. Google Search shouldn't count by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Google Search shouldn't count by sanf780 · · Score: 3, Informative
      None of the Google applications listed there are optional, as far as I can tell: Search, Maps, Play and Mail. Phone is not listed, though.

      I do not understand what "penetration of the US mobile app audience" means in this case, and I am not going to give my data in order to download the whitepaper. I need to ask for your help, Slashdot reader.

  2. Re:Do I not exist at all then? by omnichad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do I not exist at all then?

    None of those said 100% penetration, so I don't really know what you're getting at. Do you own a TV? I'm just asking but if you didn't I'm sure you would have told us by now.

  3. What about iMessage? (Or equivalent) by Kergan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  4. WhatsApp by Zappy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A top 10 installed app list and WhatsApp is not on there, I call it BS

  5. Re:Do I not exist at all then? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a time-honoured tradition for nerds to flaunt their superiority by proudly enumerating all the mainstream things they don't do.

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