Steve Smith from Online Media Daily wrote a great article on the growing number of app downloads.
Excerpt:
The taste for mobile apps is not leveling as smartphone penetration maintains its upward trajectory and finds new international markets.
According to Ovum, downloads will surpass 18 billion by the end of this year, an increase of 144% from the 7.4 billion in downloads worldwide just a year ago. The growth path is on track to surpass 45 billion in 2016.
Given the velocity of Android's expanding market share, it is not surprising that the Google mobile OS will surpass Apple in raw downloads this year. Ovum is crediting Android with 8.1 billion app downloads and iOS with over 6 billion.
Ovum sees Android dominance growing, with 21.8 billion app downloads by 2016 vs. 11.6 billion for Apple. In the OS wars, Microsoft Windows is expected to overtake RIM BlackBerry as the third-largest source of apps by 2015, Ovum says.
I don’t feel that these facts should be compared in this fashion. A better comparison would be the amount of traffic each domain registration receives in comparison to app downloads. This is an interesting write up but the comparison is a little off.
not a fair comparison of value IMO
Both products serve different purposes
apps come and go and many have limited lifespan.
Had once downloaded several apps. Never used most and can’t remember what they even were.
Good Domain names are more easily retained and more often used IMO
Still using domain urls I found years ago not so with apps.
Most of the 200 million domains regged are absolute trash. Who is kidding who here ?