Thursday, November 05, 2009

Apple's App Store: 100,000 Apps, But Most Are Unused by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

The long tail?  Lots of apps for that…

The sobering statistics come courtesy of AppsFire, an app tracking and sharing service that caters to iPhone customers. AppsFire analyzed the 100,000-plus apps in Apple's App Store to see how many were actively installed on users' devices. Its conclusion: not very many.

According to AppsFire's analysis, by the time you hit the 1000th app (as far as popularity), you're looking at only 1.76 percent of users with the program installed. Once you pass the 2000th program, the number of active installs is barely a blip on the radar.

Yep -- the overwhelming majority of apps are simply sitting unused.

Apple's App Store: 100,000 Apps, But Most Are Unused by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

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