The apps are either invading my privacy or updating and eating up my space. No app needs 75mb to 250mb per update. Its shoddy workmanship in that regard and the privacy issue is un-fixable. So I dont bother.
Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
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Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#12Why would you once have all the apps you need?
Also, my idiotic 16gb Android phone is almost always full (thanks to the OS keeping loads of garbage and leftovers from previous versions, according to google searches). On top of that, every time I plug in the phone on WiFi, all these apps start their regular updates (how often do they need to be updated??). Thus, I need to be very careful with what apps I have, and constantly trim them. I guess that with a new phon…
Let's not forget the apps that store locally hundreds of megabytes of cached data (one of the reasons I removed the Facebook app) and those that refuse to store images and videos on an external SD card (WhatsApp)
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#13It may be just me, but every time I download an app I have a feeling that I'm signing in into something that will do whatever it wants on my phone - geolocation, read address book, access the internet? for what?
And then, you know, there are these things called "websites" that you access using a single app called "browser" that end up being pretty useful even on your phone.
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#14Furthermore I rarely use most of the apps I do have. I update them even more rarely, after more than one experience of being burned by the developer breaking things that were good. (Add new things that suck all you want, but don't break existing things that are good!)
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#15Beside my banking apps and Alaska Airlines, I don't have any other apps that didn't otherwise come with my phone. I just don't have a need, and I think there are quite a few other people who use their phone in a similar way.
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#16Why would you once have all the apps you need?
That was my first thought as well. I use a phone a lot, but only for a finite number of things, and I have pretty good apps for all of those things. Therefore, I download an average of less than one new app a month.
If I download a new app it is either a) a client for a SaaS thing that I already use at home or work, or b) an app that enables me to do something new with my phone (e.g. Sleep as Android for sleep monitoring).
If I played games on my phone, then I might want to download new games semi-regularly, I guess.
The issue here is that the "99 cents from the App Store" model was always a broken way to fund software development.
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, my idiotic 16gb Android phone is almost always full (thanks to the OS keeping loads of garbage and leftovers from previous versions, according to google searches). On top of that, every time I plug in the phone on WiFi, all these apps start their regular updates (how often do they need to be updated??). Thus, I need to be very careful with what apps I have, and constantly trim them. I guess that with a new phon…
Let's not forget the apps that store locally hundreds of megabytes of cached data (one of the reasons I removed the Facebook app) and those that refuse to store images and videos on an external SD card (WhatsApp)
SDCard has security implications (you cannot currently protect them with permissions, for example), which means that any other app could read it.
But then there's encryption... so not sure why they wouldn't do it
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, my idiotic 16gb Android phone is almost always full (thanks to the OS keeping loads of garbage and leftovers from previous versions, according to google searches). On top of that, every time I plug in the phone on WiFi, all these apps start their regular updates (how often do they need to be updated??). Thus, I need to be very careful with what apps I have, and constantly trim them. I guess that with a new phon…
I am also stuck on a 16GB phone (an iPhone in this case) and thus I also simply don't have the space for new apps.
try removing big storage hogs. it's also liberating to have less apps on phone :)
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#19Why would you once have all the apps you need?
That was my first thought as well. I use a phone a lot, but only for a finite number of things, and I have pretty good apps for all of those things. Therefore, I download an average of less than one new app a month. If I download a new app it is either a) a client for a SaaS thing that I already use at home or work, or b) an app that enables me to do something new with my phone (e.g. Sleep as Android for sleep monito…
"The issue here is that the "99 cents from the App Store" model was always a broken way to fund software development."
This is one of the things that bothers me. It doesn't work for you and i, but must be working for some other people. Might be a generational thing. Might be more tech-focused people need less of that, or something.
Re: Majority of U.S. consumers still download zero apps per month, says comScore
#20It may be just me, but every time I download an app I have a feeling that I'm signing in into something that will do whatever it wants on my phone - geolocation, read address book, access the internet? for what? And then, you know, there are these things called "websites" that you access using a single app called "browser" that end up being pretty useful even on your phone.
Pretty sure that's how most app conception begins. How can they gather as much user data as possible, or as many videos micropayments as possible.
I think that most apps only exist so that some company can get a tracking device onto your phone.