How Important Are 3rd Party Apps?
There does seem to be a strong correlation between apps leadership and audience growth / marketshare.
Start with Windows. It’s probably never been the best OS. But it continues to dominate the desktop and laptop OS marketplace (even post Vista), mainly because 3rd party business apps work best on Windows.
Now we’re watching Facebook catch up to My Space in unique monthly visitors, a trend that began to accelerate after it opened its platform to 3rd party apps a year and half ago:
Does this mean the iPhone’s leadership will be hard to unseat? From RIMarkable Rapid Fire movie download : “Regardless of if you are an iPhone / iPod fan or not, 500 million downloads in a year and a half half a year is impressive…”
Worth watching.
(Thanks for the iPhone stat, James!)Trapped Ashes buy