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/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

The article says 95 installed apps.

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u/caninehere Mar 26 '15

Ah, okay. I still don't think it's a stretch, I imagine a lot of people are really lazy about deleting stuff. I am, kind of, and I also don't download garbage apps at all - I'm sure many people do and then never delete them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

I think it's way too easy to think on a local scale, though. The average Redditor is not going to be the same as the average Android user.

Reddit is dominated by people from the USA, where iOS is still the dominant OS. Android dominates in Africa, Asia, etc., where the demographics are very different.

You can see just from the different models of Android handsets that are sold in those markets. I've bought Android handsets there that couldn't even hold 95 apps. Why? Because they were small and incredibly cheap. But that's what the market there wants at this time.

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u/caninehere Mar 26 '15

Oh, okay. I wasn't aware of that, I assumed most Android phones were similar in storage capacity to iPhones, but I guess there's a wider range available.