400,000 apps in the App Store have never been downloaded says report

12. cepcamba (Posts: 717; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)

Yep. To be honest, my N8 running Symbian Belle has pretty much all the apps I have on my XperiaS save for the droid-exclusive ones.

On the same note, WP has a fraction of droid and iOS apps but all of them (nearly) are of top quality.

23. crankyd00d (Posts: 191; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)

Not trying to be an ass but it is Android, not "droid", Droid is Verizon and it represents everything that is wrong with Android (just a few things really)

30. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)

Quality is more important then Quantity ?

37. jroc74 (Posts: 6019; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)

Interesting question...lol

I do think quality is more important than quantity. BUT...if the quantity isnt too far from the quality, then quantity is better.

Like I used the E Trade app on my Android phone and my kids mother iPhone. I liked it better on the iPhone, but it wasnt so bad on Android that I hated it.

Still...interesting question for debate.

13. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4888; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)

Apple always boasts about their app store tally. Didn't they ever think that this news would get out? 400,000 is way more than half of the TOTAL number the claim.

Man this is crazy.

I am VERY shocked!!!!

17. Aeires (unregistered)

Too bad they didn't have a breakdown of tablet apps vs phone apps. Apple boasts about their tablet apps a lot, if it's the same situation as this, then it's over rated.

26. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4888; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)

Yep NOW it wouldn't shock me if Apple fluffed or finagled the iPad's numbers also.

Apple must really think that people are stupid & would not look & see stuff like this. I mean did they ever really think this would get out?

Seriously?!?

24. smartphone (Posts: 160; Member since: 21 Oct 2011)

It means apple store has only 250,000 apps.

Its no surprise and if you count number of apps that had been downloaded more than 100 times you will get few thousands apps. That is the truth people are mad about the numbers.

I had seen only one geek who had installed more than 200 apps ( others all below 100).
Across all platforms people had almost same type of apps.
Its quality that matters.

34. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)

lol you would be the first to comment. But anyway, haven't we established for years now that quality is more important? Let's not pretend that android = apple in terms of app quality. And android users don't really even buy apps as often as iOS users, so we can expect android's stats to be the same or worse.

5. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)

so what you're saying is there aren't 400,000 fart apps in the play store?

please man...

be real... you know there are TONS of android apps that you will never download that are stupid, wallpapers, fart apps, and clones of other apps.

like remixfa said above, its about 100k apps that both iOS and android users download.

18. Non_Sequitur (Posts: 1111; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)

Android has faaaaaaaar less useless fart apps. And who said live wallpapers are stupid? Ohno. I always use live wallpapers and many of my friends do as well.

21. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)

come on Non_ you seem like a reasonable guy...

this app argument is stupid... apple/google dont create the apps they allow them...

to me its the same... android has 600,000 apps some useful and some stupid as hell

same with apple...

the only difference is apple's apps are well polished they pretty much run like the android version but they look a lil more attractive...

you have to at least agree with that...

22. Non_Sequitur (Posts: 1111; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)

Yes. I do agree that both platforms have a ton of stupid crap. I'm just saying that I haven't seen as many fart apps on Android as in iOS. I never said Android had less stupid apps. xD
This is one of my favorite 'tard apps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=shake.to.charge.battery&hl=en

28. SonyFTW2020 (Posts: 311; Member since: 03 May 2012)

HAHAHA "fart apps".......lol

20. Non_Sequitur (Posts: 1111; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)

I used to be an iFan and I was a fart app connoisseur. Makes sense, as I got my iPod Touch when I was like 9 or 10. xD
Ahhhhh. Those were the days.

7. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)

very good point

14. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

I think its also going to show the difference between Apple market's vast majority of "pay apps" vs free apps. i bet money those are mostly pay apps unused.

Android is going to have its share of unused apps, but I doubt it will be so large. The majority of android apps are "free & add supported" which makes it more likely someone will DL it just to see what its about. I'm sure there will be a metric ton of apps that were DL and barely used before deletion (if they track that much), but the amount of "never used" apps should be much less.

38. jskrenes (Posts: 209; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

Maybe it's relatively easy to generate the code for a flashlight app, so a developer might try their hand at writing a flashlight code before a new app. But then it would make more sense to have thousands of Android flashlight apps than to pay a dev fee to Apple.

10. snowgator (Posts: 3604; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)

It is kinda fun to kick around apps, try them out, compare them. But most people do not do that. They just download what every other user they know downloads, or whatever shows up first on their search when they need something.

I wanted a Bill pay system on my Focus S, and most of the higher rated ones were pay apps with a small, very limited trial. So of course I pick one of the higher rated ones. It is just human nature.

36. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)

Amen to this. A good example is Instagram, what a bad app that is unbelievably popular. Pixlr-o-matic is 10 times better, but has 1/10th the downloads.

15. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

developers in smaller newer ecosystems like WP7 have a much higher chance of having a high download % for a new/unknown app than on a super saturated OS like iOS or even Android. Large developers with name recognition like Rovio or EA obviously have an advantage on the big guys, but the small developers have better chances in smaller markets. Less choices in similar apps mean more likely purchases/downloads.

16. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

taco and gallito?