“There’s a new wave of reporting focused on the post-app era,” Anshu Sharma writes for TechCrunch. “Recode announced ‘The app boom is over.’ Quartz points out how most users never download any apps. Let me be very clear: The app boom is not over.”
Sharma writes, “The reporting on this topic made me think of an imagined Yogi Berra quote: ‘Nobody downloads apps anymore, it’s too crowded.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Blathering, not reporting.
“Let’s start with the facts. The real numbers are amazing — we are in an unprecedented era of growth when it comes to revenue from apps,” Sharma writes. “There has never been a better time to be an apps developer.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Of course, the app boom is not over – and the numbers prove it.
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