Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
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Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#2sounds like Zipf's Law [1]
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#3Goes to show you that Mark Zuckerberg was very smart in buying Instagram and WhatsApp. Also shows that Microsoft has a massive opportunity on the productivity side. For those that aren't heavy social users, apps like Mail and Calendar are ripe for displacement by more intelligent alternatives e.g. Sunrise.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#4sounds like Zipf's Law [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
Exactly, the same type of distribution seen across many natural phenomena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#Empirical_examples_o...
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#5Personally 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
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#6It seems like they have removed the default apps like Mail. They should be included in any analysis.
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#7How does ComScore collect this data?
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#8Wow, it's like app use follows a power-law, like almost every other phenomenon in recorded history...
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#9What a waste of productivity.
Re: Average American spends 80% of their app time in top three apps
#10What a waste of productivity.
Wasting productivity may be necessary for society to sustain rapid population growth.