If you’re not an iPhone/iPod user, you would pretty much think meh, about apps and iTunes and the whole appstore thing. With the news this week that Apple’s App Store has eclipsed the 1Billion download mark, you would think everyone is downloading apps at an incredible rate. Incredibly though, mobile users on other platforms are less inclined to download, or just prefer a pristine device. Something I can’t imagine actually, but apparently lot’s of peeps out there are application virgins!

As surprising as it may seem, a huge percentage of mobile users, do not value add to their devices, with downloaded applications, I can’t imagine…

In what is a very narrow cross section of mobile users over  at Tech Crunch, they have come up with a visual comparison of downloader’s to not downloader’s!

compared to a Billion, the amount of people, these percentages are representing are miniscule, but what is painfully obvious is the fact that the Apple AppStore is kicking butt when it comes to program distribution.

It also becomes poignant that every man and his dog are trying to build an appstore that works! It is absolutely impossible to emulate the effectiveness of the Apple store though, considering it’s longevity and relative ease of use.

What is considerably more appalling though, to me, is the fact that people have computers in their pockets, and only use them for their phone function! Seriously though, the results of the survey are slightly flawed, because the definition of a smartphone is very vague as it’s referenced here.

Have a look at the  original post from techcrunch