Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Oct 23, 2020This Week in Apps #32: Snapchat Beats Instagram, Chase Hits Square, and more.This Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store ↓ 76.51, Google Play ↓ 78.03 1. Chase too Chase rolled out its mobile credit card acceptance service last week, giving competitor Square a…Mobile3 min readMobile3 min read
Published in Mobile News & Insights·Oct 11, 2020This Week in Apps gets a new publication 🚀TL;DR This Week in Apps has its own publication. Check it out: https://medium.com/this-week-in-apps A few months ago we started publishing a weekly newsletter with interesting insights from around the mobile world. With a global lockdown the data was just wild. Some apps were seeing unimaginable increase in downloads while others lost…1 min read1 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Oct 9, 2020This Week in Apps #30: Twitch, Among Us, Genshin Impact, and more.This Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store 76.89, Google Play 78.58 1. Twitch for IRL Sports 2020 has been an excellent year for Twitch, and things continue to get better. Last month, Twitch…Tech3 min readTech3 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Oct 2, 2020This Week in Apps #29: The NFL is Back, NY Starts Tracing, and MoreThis Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Index: App Store 76.24, Google Play 80.13 1. The NFL is back, big time The NFL is the latest sport to “come back”, mostly fan-less, which drove eager spectators to none other but…Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Sep 25, 2020This Week in Apps #28 — Widgets Are on Fire, Pinterest and Discord, Too!This Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store 79.23, Google Play 82.14 1. Widgets. Widgets. Widgets. How much time have you spent adding and stacking widgets on your iPhone this week? …Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Jul 31, 2020This Week in Apps #20 — Sports Make a Comeback, an All-Time High for Pokémon Go, and moreThis Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store 86.27, Google Play 92.54 1. Shields up T-Mobile gave its Scam Shield app a serious update last week and made some useful features free…Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Jul 24, 2020This Week in Apps #19 — Microsoft Got Slack Angry, Baseball, and moreThis Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store 86.09, Google Play 93.47 1. Nothing but dust This week, Slack filed a competition complaint with the European Union. Comparing downloads of the two, it’s…Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Jul 17, 2020This Week in Apps #18 — Calm, TikTok, Streaming, and more.This Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store ↘️ 88.09, Google Play ↗️ 88.39 1. The new kid on the block Looking for a new streaming service? Well, you’re getting one anyway. NBC launched Peacock TV…Apple3 min readApple3 min read
Published in This Week in Apps, by Appfigures·Jul 10, 2020This Week in Apps #17 — TikTok’s Replacement, Hamilton, Trump, and moreThis Week in Apps is a short, no-fluff, round-up of interesting things that happened in the mobile industry. Here are our top highlights. U.S. Mobile Download Index: App Store ↘️ 86.38, Google Play ↘️ 82.02 1. Talk less, watch more Disney+ knows how to do “it” right. Last Friday, Disney+ added Hamilton, the musical you…Apple3 min readApple3 min read
Published in Mobile News & Insights·Mar 30, 2018iOS Developers Ship 29% Fewer Apps in 2017, the First Ever Decline + More Trends to Watch In 2018An Analysis of More Than 2 Million New App Releases — 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. …Apple6 min readApple6 min read
