Has our relationship with smartphone applications changed in a few years?

When I bought my first iPhone,
I kept browsing the App Store looking for news
applications.

Today, a few years later, I realize that
only a few are essential to my daily life.
Worse still, very few applications manage to rise to the level of these
essential and yet, believe me, I install a lot of them.

At any rate,it seems that over time our relationship
to applications has changed a lot:

Today, whilethe Apple App Store is slowly approaching
the 800,000 applications, which today still has time to
browse the virtual shelves of the App Store from top to bottom.

The abundance of applications is almost detrimental to the discovery of new things
and small pearls. Obviously, some manage to do well
game, but ultimately, they disappear quite quickly into the depths
from the iPhone and end up simply being erased. In any case, these are the cases
At my house.

All this perfectly complements a study recently conducted by Nielsen
and which shows thatthe average number of applications per phone
tendency to increase. However, the time spent on the smartphone,
he remains stable.

For its part, Onavo recently affirmed thatin the US only 1000
apps have at least 50,000 users. Worse still, in
In general, less than 50% of people who download an application do not
only use it once.

And how have you seen your application consumption evolve?
How many apps do you use every day and for what?

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