China second only to US in app downloads

An iPhone. (File photo/CFP)

Chinese people download apps like crazy, according to the latest reports. China is second to only the US in the amount of apps it downloads.
Free apps are much more common than pay apps in China. The average amount Chinese smartphone users pay for an app is US$0.13, less than the US$0.19 average global cost, and half the average in Vietnam, according to China Times, our Chinese-language sister newspaper.
Stenvall Skoeld, a market research firm, recently released a survey showing that Chinese users downloaded 18% of the world's apps in the second quarter of the year, yet their spending on apps only accounted for 3% for the total. The US downloaded 28% of apps but made up 42% of the spending on apps — the most in the world on both fronts — reports web portal Sina Science and Technology Net.


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