Mobile App Use in First Half of 2014

The demand for Mobile Apps has been growing over the years. 2014 has been a great year when it comes to mobile app development. 2014 is regarded as the year of mobile app development. Due to the rising demand of mobile apps, new innovation and creative ideas have been implemented in the development process.When we pass into the second half of 2014, mobile apps have defeated the mobile web. Apps have come to dominate mobile traffic, according to leading mobile survey company, which studied 300 billion ad impressions in the first half of 2014.Mobile apps have captures every sector. Some of the sectors where mobile apps have tasted success are gaming apps, educational apps, travel apps, health apps, etc. In the year 2015 the mobile app development industry is about to witness further growth. This improving growth curve of mobile apps would be achieved by exploring sectors like Pharmacy and other related fields where mobile apps have enough space to grow.

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A surprising 58.2 percent of mobile ad impressions was the contribution of mobile apps while 48.8 percent on the mobile web. Businesses vie for user time and attention in the mobile apps, not websites and that’s why mobile app development companies and cross platform app development companies have great funnel of projects to execute.

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American users are now spending most of their time enjoying digital media within mobile applications they have downloaded to their mobile devices, according comScore. Mobile apps are thus reported to steal most of the users’s time than desktop usage or mobile web surfing.  The mobile apps along with mobile web, captures 60% of time spent, whereas desktop-based digital media consumption trails behind at 40%. Ninety per cent of media consumption is also on mobile devices.

One-third of US app users, nowadays, download at least one application per month. The average smart-phone user downloads 3 apps per month. The average number of running apps in a smartphone is 40. Most of the users are addicted to them. Nearly 80% of app users use apps nearly every day, accurately saying, 26 days a month.

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This upsurge in mobile app use reflects in many fields like travel booking, for example, the per cent of users who booked travel products or services on tablets and smartphones at least once in the past 12 months was 25% in April 2014, and expected to reach 30% next year. In the coming months, more and more people will be booking their flights and hotels through the apps of travel operators. The travel booking apps provide them convenience, flexibility, discounts and special offers, the facilities which gradually drag them away from the conventional ways of booking.

On Feb 28, 2014, CNN gave the breaking news that the Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to browse the Internet in January 2014, for the first time. 55% of Internet browsing was done through mobile devices. Apps had a share of 47% whereas mobile web had 7%, according to Enders Analysis.

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This is not a phenomenon seen only in the US. Developing economies like India also joins the mobile app race. With 111 million smartphone users, India ranks as the fourth largest smartphone market globally after China (629.2 million), US (196.8 million) and Brazil (141.8 million), according to the latest reports. This will lead to astonishing rise in mobile app use in the coming months.

In 2016, search engine results will showcase video ads

Google has started showing videos in the search results. In 2016, it plans to show video ads too. Social media websites like facebook and twitter have already taken the step to show autoplaying videos to the users. It is predicted that the mobile apps will show in SERP table too. It is expected that this recent innovation can take mobile apps for optimization of fine-tuned mobile search.

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Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in cross platform mobile app development.

Chatbots are defining an effective self-service framework.

Chatbots have proven to design a more effective self-service framework which provides the users or customer with personalized responses to their queries in real-time. Initially, bots were largely used in messaging apps like Facebook, Slack, Skype etc. However, advancements in AI have made it easy for organizations to integrate chatbots into their native mobile apps. One of the biggest advantages of chatbot application in mobile apps is that with each user interaction, the app will only become more accurate in delivering results. Chatbots can significantly improve the functionality of mobile apps and they have proven this in the last few years.