My Cellphone My Terms

What a milestone! 2 billion apps… 50M iphone’s and Ipod touches sold…hey that’s approx 40 apps per unit. 85k different applications available, sounds exciting. But how many are actually useful?

While quantity is often a great unit of measurement, quality is more preferred. Considering the average number of apps downloaded another interesting stat would be how many are actually used a month after being downloaded? Ranging from free to whatever you think someone would pay the app store grows. Apple encourages programmers, and maybe even non-programmers like myself to think outside the box about all that is useful, useless, fun, bizarre but at the end of it creative.

While I couldn’t find any solid numbers to the revenues that the pay apps bring, the culture that has been created has attracted other global heavyweights like Nokia, BlackBerry and Google to start creating apps. And much like all things we consider in the app world, more is better.

And why not, there is almost no barrier to entry except for what your mind creates, however if that app sells is another story.

With the explosion of the Apple apps, it seems it will only be a matter of time till they say over 50 billion served! Seems like a lot to digest, I’ll download my apps in moderation with the occasional diet to keep me interested. Have an Appy day!