Fun Facts about Mobile Apps

By 2014, mobile internet usage will take over desktop internet usage. (microSoft Tag)

30 billion Apps will be downloaded by end of 2012. (ABI Research October 2011)

61% of Mobile and Tablet users conduct local business searches on Apps. (Localize Feb.2012)

From 2010 to 2011, mobile App use nearly doubled.

The most common type of mobile apps used are email Apps.

1 out of 4 mobile web users access the internet daily from their mobile phones.

79% of the time spent using mobile Apps is spent using social media and gaming Apps.

From 2010 to 2011, the number of mobile retail Apps increased by 350%.

66.20% of Apps downloaded in iTunes were paid Apps. (infographic April 2012)

In 2012, the average number of Apps installed on each smartphone was 41.

In 2012, the U.S. saw a 55% increase in smartphone subscriptions totaling 98 million smartphone subscribers. (comScore2012)