I admit that I’ve become obsessed with my iphone. My wife says I never put it down, but I argue that’s partly because if I did she’d chuck it in the bin.
I’ve now downloaded a huge range of applications from free fun stuff like the obligatory ipint thingy, games such as Monkey Ball and Angry Birds, to a few productivity apps.
But it got me thinking: which is the best app? What do I use most regularly?
I started looking over the apps I’d downloaded and compiling a list of my favourites but then it hit me. There is one I use every single day, multiple times, without even thinking. Text Messaging!
Yes, predictably this blog is about SMS.
But you can’t blame me because it’s true. It’s the oldest and most widely used data app in the world with over 2.4 billion active users. It’s become part of our culture spawning its own language, it exists on every phone, and there are no social, geographic or demographic barriers to its use. Even my Grandma uses it.
Here are some recent stats:
In the UK alone we send some 11 million texts per hour.
We sent a massive 874 million texts on New Year’s Eve alone.
Current predictions suggest a volume rise of 22% during 2010.
Over 90% of text messages are read within seconds of receiving them.
So there you have it, the undisputed king of apps, and as much as I love Angry Birds, I can’t see it ever competing for the top spot!
I heard today from Chris Evans on the radio that the african horn voovavoo thingy is now the most popular i phone app.
Apparently there is some football competition going on wher they use them a lot
Thanks Lt Powell.
I’ve also seen that app at the top of the charts but so far managed to resist purchasing it.
For the sake or my own eardrums I pray that it doesn’t become more popular than SMS.
The Apps I use on my iphone are the ones that came with it, sans maybe one or two, such as omnifocus. Most everything else is just unnecessary and are rarely used.