No one seems to really use them
If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterPinch Media just published an interesting report: It claims that only 30% of iPhone owners who buy an app use it the next day. Fewer than 5% of people use the app after 20 days.
What does this tell us? That most mobile apps out there aren’t useful or good enough. The first day I played with an iPhone, I downloaded about 10 apps. Only one of them proved to be well-done enough for me to use again. The rest just didn’t offer what they had promised. What has your exeprience been? How many apps have you downloaded that you’ve used for more than a day or two? What are you still using?
How useful could an app on your phone really be unless it is a game or made for work. Apple sucks.
All that this data shows is that people who download the iFart and imRich apps only use them once, for the novelty of it.
If you actually download a real app, you’ll use it way more than once.
There are several without which I could not imagine using my iPhone. Ex: Bloomberg, Shazam, Where, Flixster, Pandora, games such as Labyrinth, Sim City, Fuzzle, iShoot, Lux, etc.
(And if you jailbreak, you get ever more coolness with NES/GBA emulators, themes, Snapture, etc.)
The ‘premium apps’ that they are supposedly going to start doing will also help in alleviating this one-and-done phenomenon…
True dat DPeezy,
Sia I would not go that far, but there are a lot of haters of AAPL
I’ve only downloaded free apps, and for the most part I’ve used them all. Some were for a lark (Lightsaber, HuntingDelta, PBJTime). Some are for “just in case” (Earthcomber, Natural Cures).
I use Bloomberg, AP Mobile News, Facebook, Shoutcast, Nightstand, various weather apps and a few others everyday.
Google Earth, Jambase, Flixster, SportsTap, PocketDyno …. they are all good to go.
Ah, forgot about Google Earth.
That’s a good one and it really showcases the platform’s capabilities.