13 interesting facts about mobile app development
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Mobile applications have rapidly taken over areas of life since the advent of the smartphone, such as communication, entertainment, shopping and more. For businesses, mobile app development is becoming a must to keep up with consumer needs. Let's take a look at some interesting information about mobile app development.
1. You spend almost 100% of your screen time in apps.
Users spend almost 90% of their time in apps, not browsing the web. If you want to give your business an edge, consider creating an app.
2. The average user has more than 80 applications on their phone.
But they only use 9 per day and 30 per month on average.
3. Mobile gaming has seen a huge increase in users.
Mobile games account for more than 40% of smartphone users, of which around 80% are Android users. If you're looking to create the next great mobile game, Android users are a great place to start.
4. Android has almost 1.5x more apps than the App Store.
By early 2022, Android users could choose from over 2.5 million apps, while Apple/iOS users could choose from just 1.85 million apps.
5. Half of the apps available in the App Store have never been downloaded.
It is estimated that roughly 1 million apps available to iOS users have never been downloaded. But in a sea of more than 2 million, it's easy to see why.
6. Thousands of apps are released daily.
Between the two major app stores, over 100,000 apps are released per month, with the Google Play Store adding around 70,000 per month and the Apple App Store for iOS users adding just over 30,000 per month. That's over 3,000 applications a day!
7. Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world.
Android dominates the mobile OS market with a 73% market share. Combined with Apple iOS, both control 99% of the global market share.
8. Advertising spending is out of control.
In 2019, just under $60 billion was spent on promoting app downloads. By 2023, this number is expected to exceed $935 billion. And while Facebook used to be the dominant market for advertisers, TikTok is quickly closing that gap. Advertisers are expected to spend more than $11 billion on TikTok ads in 2022 alone.
9. Mobile shopping apps are the future.
More than 50% of shoppers prefer shopping on mobile apps over mobile or desktop websites. If you own an eCommerce or DTC brand, consider adding an app this year.
10. Most people only use a handful of apps.
Although there are over 5 million apps to choose from, most people only use an average of 10 of them per day.
11. Move over Facebook, TikTok is winning the app race.
Over the past few years, Facebook has had the most popular apps by both daily downloads (Facebook Messenger) and daily active users (WhatsApp), as have 3 of the other 5 most popular apps. But now, TikTok is the most downloaded app in the world with more than 176 million downloads in the first quarter of 2022 alone and more than 1 billion monthly active users.
12. More than 200 billion apps were downloaded last year.
With roughly 218 billion downloads last year, that's almost 28 per person!
13. Apps have a short lifespan.
Almost 80% of users never use an app again after 72 hours of installation.
Good app design for businesses in Turkey and around the world is more important than ever to deal with multiple platforms, differentiate the business from the competition, and provide a great user experience. As Yüce Yazılım, we follow the innovations brought by technology day by day and present them to you at the same time as the whole world. You can move your existing systems to mobile or you can implement your projects that will facilitate your work as a mobile application together with us.