So Many Apps – So Few Used
So many apps, so difficult to find just the app you really want. Unlike my wife and others, I find that locating apps that I actually want to use is not as easy as I might like. Installing and using them on the other hand, no problem.
Despite this, it seems that roughly 80% of the available apps out there ever see the light of day. Based on my experience with discovery, I am hardly surprised. With such a great product and cool apps available, things might be a whole lot better if the average person could discover new application besides relying on random blog posts to help out.
So what is being done about this? Well, nothing, as it is the responsibility of the developer to get the word out. And I can totally understand this. Still, it would be a lot sweeter of a deal if there was a bigger push to make new and cool apps better known. But hey, whatever!
One Comment
Tony Bishop
November 10th, 2009
at 10:10pm
I don’t know why you seem surprised at the low % of Ipod apps downloaded. Sourceforge for instance has over 200,000 free apps and less than 10% have ever been downloaded.
Other research indicates that of the 20% Ipod apps downloaded, 80% of these are only used one to five times.
Maybe the answer is that the vast majority of apps have a fundamental flaw – no benefit for the consumer. Sooner or later programmers may wake up to the fact that features are just facts, benefits are what the features should provide, and if they don’t there is not a market for the app.