Apple reveals top ten most installed free & paid iPhone apps of the year https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/12/apple-most-downloaded-app-store-apps-and-games/

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Top 10 Paid iPhone apps
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These facts tell you a lot about the typical iPhone user.

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On 2023-12-13 01:08, Wally J wrote:

Apple reveals top ten most installed free & paid iPhone apps of the year https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/12/apple-most-downloaded-app-store-apps-and-games/

Top 10 Free iPhone apps
Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire
CapCut – Video Editor
Max: Stream HBO, TV, & Movies
Threads, an Instagram app
TikTok
Instagram
Google
YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream
WhatsApp Messenger
Gmail – Email by Google

Top 10 Paid iPhone apps
Shadowrocket
HotSchedules
Procreate Pocket
The Wonder Weeks
75 Hard
AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch
Goblin Tools
TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome
SkyView
AnkiMobile Flashcards

These facts tell you a lot about the typical iPhone user.

Show that Android users are any different...

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badgolferman <[email protected]> wrote

Tell us what you have determined about the typical iPhone user based on
these top apps.

Hi badgolferman,

Let's compare half the USA (iOS users) with the other half (Android), in
terms of what Apple says and what Google says are the most installed apps (although we have to note they reported the categories differently as Apple reported them as "most installed" while Google seems to have used "best"
and "users' choice" and other similar descriptors).

*Google Play: Best apps and games announced for 2023*
<https://mashable.com/article/google-play-top-apps-2023>

*Google Play crowns its best apps of 2023*
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-play-crowns-its-best-apps-of-2023-did-your-favorite-make-the-list/>

Taking the ZDNet article first, it says this is the "Best overall app"
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And it says this is the "Users' choice" app reported by Google Play:
ChatGPT

That same information is reported in Mashable where in all the iPhone &
Android (& iPad & tablet) compilations, they also reported the best games (where it might be interesting to see games iOS users like vs Android).
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On 2023-12-13 07:33, Wally J wrote:

badgolferman <[email protected]> wrote

Tell us what you have determined about the typical iPhone user based on
these top apps.

Hi badgolferman,

Let's compare half the USA (iOS users) with the other half (Android), in terms of what Apple says and what Google says are the most installed apps (although we have to note they reported the categories differently as Apple reported them as "most installed" while Google seems to have used "best"
and "users' choice" and other similar descriptors).

*Google Play: Best apps and games announced for 2023*
<https://mashable.com/article/google-play-top-apps-2023>

*Google Play crowns its best apps of 2023*
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-play-crowns-its-best-apps-of-2023-did-your-favorite-make-the-list/>

Neither of those are lists of which are the most popular apps on Android.

Why can't you ever play it straight?

Taking the ZDNet article first, it says this is the "Best overall app"
Imprint: Learn Visually
And it says this is the "Users' choice" app reported by Google Play:
ChatGPT

That same information is reported in Mashable where in all the iPhone & Android (& iPad & tablet) compilations, they also reported the best games (where it might be interesting to see games iOS users like vs Android).

What would be interesting would for you to compare the same metric for
both platforms

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