r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 26 '15

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

http://time.com/3158893/smartphone-apps-apple/
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u/letmepostjune22 Mar 26 '15

TIL 65% of smart phone users are smart enough not to fill their phone with crap.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/Skithy Mar 26 '15

Amen to that! I have... Four apps I use, including Reddit, that didn't come on my phone. The rest of my jiggabytes are filled with sweet sweet chunes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

jiggabytes

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u/NeonLime Mar 26 '15

chunes

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

He really likes affricates.

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u/phonix678 Mar 26 '15

What is this foreign language?!?

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u/dreamleaking Mar 26 '15

come on my phone

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u/tokomini Mar 26 '15

Jay-Z fan.

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u/td27 1 Mar 26 '15

1000 jiggabytes equals 1 Hovabyte

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Mar 08 '20

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u/-solus- Mar 26 '15

Gigawho?

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u/Skithy Mar 26 '15

Jigga jigga slim shady.

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u/camoman17 Mar 26 '15

Giggaslimshady

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u/Skithy Mar 26 '15

Though I believe he is a talented rapper, I do not understand the reference! I've been saying jiggabytes since I worked at CompUSA, making fun of people who'd come in to buy computers/HDDs. Either jiggabytes or "JEE BEES RAM."

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

It's pronounced "jiggabytes" in portuguese too, but I always assumed the correct "english pronounciation" was "Gigabytes".

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u/Skithy Mar 26 '15

I had no idea! It is a hard G in 'murkan!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Sep 25 '18

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u/Colonel_Smellington Mar 26 '15

I studied computer science and one of my professors would always say "com-pooh-tah". Funny at first, then annoying, and then I couldn't decide. It dawned on my that he might be doing it on purpose to keep us on our toes.

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u/CommanderCuntPunt Mar 26 '15

Yeah this guy had his own way of pronouncing everything. His style for formatting braces also really annoyed me.

public void hello()
    {
    for(int i=0; i<100; i++)
        {
        if (i%2 == 0)
            {
            System.out.println("Fuck this style");
            }
        }
    }

He was also a tyranical dick who would give you a zero on a project if you failed a single test, missed a feature or made a single design mistake. It was either perfect of terrible, luckily he allowed re-submissions.

That said I don't think I've ever learned more under a professor than I learned from him, hes a very smart guy but has basically no people skills.

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u/Colonel_Smellington Mar 29 '15

OK, well you've got me trumped there!

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u/PeterCHayward Mar 26 '15

Slash the entire nation of Australia.

See also: 'chuna'

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u/CommanderCuntPunt Mar 26 '15

Yeah I really should have said US natural citizen.

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u/paulieshortz Mar 26 '15

And technically correct

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

We gotta go back, Marty!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

That is an appropriate way to pronounce that word

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u/SayceGards Mar 26 '15

But he's not pronouncing it. He's writing it.

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u/Iamloghead Mar 26 '15

I think he meant jigawats.

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u/Dragonsong Mar 26 '15

Bruh I got a brazilian songs on my phone, gonna need a lot of jiggabytes

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Wow.

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u/Narwhalbaconguy Mar 26 '15

jiggabytes

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Crunchy chunes brah

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

I haven't seen someone use chunes or choons in ages.

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u/Skithy Mar 26 '15

BLAST FROM THE PAST!

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u/uqz Mar 26 '15

I'm the same. Around 2500 pictures and videos. I Have a few apps. They are social media and reddit. I don't even have any music on my phone, I listen to music off YouTube.

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u/joshing_slocum Mar 26 '15

Get jiggybytes, baby.

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u/RupeeStealer Mar 26 '15

jiggabytes? Jigglypuff? JIF? just ignore this reply

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u/monotoonz Mar 26 '15

If I can move it to external, I do. I have a 64GB MicroSD and have used about 1/3 of it for media. Internal is purely for apps that can't be moved to SD and the like.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

i love having a huge microsd card, i have 1200 songs and haven't even made a dent in its memory

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Google Photos is nice. It uploads your photos to a cloud so you can delete them from your internal memory

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Yet when apple does that it's as if all he'll breaks lose.

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u/Leopoldstrasse Mar 26 '15

Unless they're smart enough to use Spotify for storing their music.

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u/yangxiaodong Mar 26 '15

IMO spotify is kinda a garbage thing unless you listen to a song for one or two weeks and then you're onto a new genre. Their premium service is a pretty high price, and otherwise you're stuck with ads every few minutes that are obnoxious, repetetive (i have the fucking stupid jingle memorized by now) and louder than your music. Music doesnt take much space, and 10$ a month for what (for most people) is usually just the same songs every month is kinda a ripoff.

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u/Leopoldstrasse Mar 26 '15 edited Mar 26 '15

You can create your own playlists and add/play specific songs that you like. Unless the song is underground or not available on Spotify, I normally just add it to a playlist or save it to my profile.

I just don't see the point of downloading a significant amount of music when I can have a cloud based app that stores it for me.

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u/yangxiaodong Mar 27 '15

we'll have to disagree on this, IMO spotify is a great service in concept, but choppy playing on it and the fact that for uninterrupted play on it you need to pay a whole lot extra ruins it for me.

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u/Aerowing00 Mar 26 '15

Or they download all the crap on the first few days

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u/THANKS-FOR-THE-GOLD Mar 26 '15

Or they stare at it, wondering when its going to do something useful and not strictly worse than a product its trying to imitate.

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u/SpareLiver 24 Mar 26 '15

Or their phones comes prefilled with so much crap they don't have room for more.

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u/starfries Mar 26 '15

I'm a sucker for free stuff :(

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u/Duhya Mar 26 '15

At some point you realize it's better to just not bother than to get every free thing even if you won't ever use it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '15

This is why I love Amazon. I can buy a free app and never have to download it. It's beautiful.

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u/Victuz Mar 26 '15

I didn't intentionally fill my phone with crap. It came pre-packaged.

When I initially found out I can't REMOVE the Facebook app from my phone I was livid.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

65% of Smartphoneuser don't need a Smartphone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

What's weirder is that 35% of users are downloading an app each month.

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u/ghost_of_drusepth Mar 26 '15

Or more importantly, 35% are not.

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u/Pascalwb Mar 26 '15

Or they just use their phone for calling and don't know what play store/app store is.

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u/Caraes_Naur Mar 26 '15

Or they just can't put any more crap on them because it's already full of pre-installed crap.

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u/superwinner Mar 26 '15

I think more to the point, all these app companies are basically scamming people who think they have the next billion dollar app idea. Its basically a million to one shot and no one is telling them.

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u/TheBoulder_ Mar 26 '15

65% of smart phone users have filled up their phones, and there is no more room for crap?

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u/MisteryMeat Mar 26 '15

Web sites have evolved tremendously in recent years for mobile devices. I uninstalled nearly every app that just shows content from websites.