{"id":6436,"date":"2016-12-20T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:52:04","slug":"linked-half-of-u-s-smartphone-users-download-zero-apps-per-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/linked-half-of-u-s-smartphone-users-download-zero-apps-per-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Half of U.S. smartphone users download zero apps per month&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/9\/16\/12933780\/average-app-downloads-per-month-comscore\">via Recode<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apple recently announced that its iOS users alone have downloaded more than 140 billion apps since the App Store launched in 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the app market, as we\u2019ve noted, is still a challenging one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Half of all U.S. smartphone users download zero apps per month, according to comScore\u2019s latest mobile app report.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This report is from a Third Party (ComScore) not 1st Party (Apple) but it\u2019s an interesting report nonetheless. I download maybe 1 new app every 6 months. The rest of my downloads are just updates to existing applications, 80% of which I don\u2019t use unless I\u2019m traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Recode: Apple recently announced that its iOS users alone have downloaded more than 140 billion apps since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-12-20T15:52:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"be0c2e98-7280-4059-a238-aa78722ec416","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-12-20T15:52:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvgwumHKAQFmiOKp4ci7EFg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1FO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7477,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/linked-apple-revamps-app-store-guidelines\/","url_meta":{"origin":6436,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple Revamps App Store Guidelines&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple Revamps App Store Guidelines, Sets New Rules for Remote Mirroring Apps Like Steam Link - Mac Rumors: A new rule, 2.3.12, states that all apps are required to \"clearly describe\" new features and product changes in their \"What's New\" text. 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