What a waste of productivity.
Only if you value productivity over pleasure, why should we?
Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
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#12I think some people forget that the browser (and mobile web) is just an app too. One with unlimited content and a really cool back end that anyone, anywhere in the world can update in real time.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#13Chrome
Wikipedia
HackerNews
80% seems right.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#14I think some people forget that the browser (and mobile web) is just an app too. One with unlimited content and a really cool back end that anyone, anywhere in the world can update in real time.
Sure, and is so is your home screen and so is the dialer, but when people say "apps" they mean specific service-based installable applications.
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#15Wow, it's like app use follows a power-law, like almost every other phenomenon in recorded history...
I'm always amazed that more people are astounded by facts like these rather than expecting them.
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#16I find myself in this group as well: I don't think I ever used more than 3 "serious" apps in my phone. The alarm clock is one of them.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#17I find myself in this group as well: I don't think I ever used more than 3 "serious" apps in my phone. The alarm clock is one of them.
torch for me. and of course the e-reader.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#18Steve Jobs had it right with iPhone 1 when it came out with just 10 apps. The only problem was it wasn't the right ten apps.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#19Personally that's because I think most apps suck and I'd rather use their website in safari. Furthermore many mobile sites annoy me and I try hard to stick with their desktop site. So yes, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Safari/mail (do those count) account for a ridiculous amount of my app usage even though they're just a more normally distributed slice of my internet traffic
A sad side effect is that the internet became silo-ed in these all-powerful 3 or 10 apps. We used to be able to index anything, now it's not possible any more. Also, we put much of our interaction and output into a few companies who can do whatever they want with our data, such as profiling and leaking to police. It's more convenient for them and the state.
The new AOL walled garden is here. You can't hack your FB app to apply a Grease Monkey script any more on your phone.
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#20Time spent make sense to rank social media apps powered by ads. However, this metric doesn't reflect the true value of commerce apps.
I doubt people spend much time on the Uber or Amazon app, but they generate a massive amount of revenue anyways.