Out of a sample of 1,700 Android devices from all over the world, the three most popular non-Google apps where owned by Facebook.

 

As part of our work at Staytuned, we’ve been trying to understand how people use their phones and how we can help them to have a better mobile experience and user their phones more efficiently.

 

Staytuned is a personal app concierge that learns from the users and dynamically modifies the user interface of their smartphones to show them the most relevant apps depending on their context (whether the user is at home, work, driving, traveling, etc.). We’ve released a beta since a few months ago (you can download it now from the Play Store here) and have been learning about the mobile behavior of more than 3,000 users from all over the world.

 

Even though users had an average of 158 Apps installed on their devices, in many cases, up to 85% of this Apps where system Apps (I’ll go into detail in a future post)

 

The most impressive number that we’ve seen so far was a list of 28,125 unique Apps generated by 1,700 users.