I will be looking forward to reading this at the weekend. But there are the highlights from the new Sunday Times App 500 list
According to new research released to coincide with The Sunday Times Apps List 2012 (first section published Sunday January 22) the majority of smartphone and tablet users believe that apps have made their lives better. In fact more than half say they use their phone more for apps than any other purpose such as emailing, texting or even calling.
The highlights:
* Half of the UK population now owns a smartphone
* In 2011 over a million different apps were available
* Almost 80% of the apps people download are free
* In the last week of 2011 there were 81 million downloads in the UK alone
* The average smartphone owner in the UK keeps around 38 apps on their device
* Over half download a new app at least once a week
