Category: Databits
The Numbers Behind Apple’s Best Apps & Games of 2018
Apple just announced the Best Apps and Best Games of 2018. But, they forgot a critical piece of information for the lists to be meaningful — the actual downloads. In this report we’ve taken Apple’s Best lists and overlaid our …Read
Apple Leaves More Than 6,200 Mac Apps Homeless
Update (11/5): As of this morning, Apple has reinstated all of the categories it removed last week. Maybe this was a mistake after all? This morning news broke that Apple removed 11 categories from the Mac App Store. The categories …Read
Who’s Downloading Mobile Banking Apps?
Banks have been making their way into our smart devices for the last few years. With many things things around us becoming more immediate and on-demand, not having to visit the local bank’s branch is a welcome addition. This week …Read
Spotify was downloaded on 25 million iPhones in the U.S. in 2018
Music streaming services have made their way into millions of devices over the last few years, and everyone seems to have a favorite. This week we’re going to compare the most downloaded music streaming apps in the U.S. App Store, …Read
Walmart Struggles to Compete With Amazon on The App Store
Thanksgiving is on the horizon here in the U.S. and for shoppers that means Black Friday sales. This week we’ll be looking at the most downloaded shopping apps. In September, the five most downloaded mobile shopping apps in the U.S. …Read
Microsoft Challenges Firefox For 2nd Most Downloaded Mobile Web browser In The U.S.
This week we’re looking at mobile browsers. Sure, many iPhone users stick with Safari, the built-in browser that comes on every iDevice, but still, some prefer a 3rd party browser. When it comes to alternatives, there’s a clear winner. With …Read
Amazon’s App Downloads Quadruple During Prime Day
Prime Day is over, and even with technical issues early on, consumers showed just how much they love deals by downloading Amazon’s iOS app nearly 4 times more than on any average day. With revenue estimated to top $3.4 billion, …Read
iOS Developers Ship 29% Fewer Apps In 2017, The First Ever Decline – And More Trends To Watch
After our report that the app economy is starting to mature last year, we started getting a lot of questions from members and friends about where the app economy is going. For this post we crunched through millions of new …Read
7 Insights From GSMA’s Mobile Connectivity Index
Rapidly globalizing markets provide beneficial opportunities—in many cases, even more than already developed markets. Identifying those opportunities is usually more complex, and requires deep insights. Read
CNN for iOS Gets Hit with “Fake” Reviews Pushing Fox Up The Ranks
Politics are making waves on the App Store yet again. This time the target is CNN’s iOS app. For most of last week, the app has seen an increase of 8,200% in negative reviews. To put this in perspective, before …Read