ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!! (cancelled due to lack of interest)
Apple is proud of its App Store. They boast of over 50 billion downloads and almost 900,000 apps; although they're more circumspect about actual sales of individual apps.
But there appears to be a fair amount of chaff amongst the wheat, and not all apps are equally popular. In fact, zombie
programmes receive next-to-no downloads
, yet they're not a small minority of those on offer.
According to research by Adeven 579,001 apps out of a total of 888,856 apps in our database are zombies
. That's 65.14002268084% to the rest of us. (rolleyes)
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, remains bullish, stating that the Apple App Store had fundamentally changed the world
.
Now I'm willing to give Tim the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he isn't really a buffoon, and that his comments were taken out of context. But fundamentally changing the world? Really? Unless there's an app to end famine, and another to halt climate change, I think he might need to update his hyperbole app.