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Average iPhone owner has 108 apps, spends 84 minutes a day using them

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 28th, 2011)

A survey of the 1,000 iOS devices that synchronize with Appsfire's mobile app discovery and sharing platform reveal some interesting statistics about app usage by its iOS owners. Summarized in an infographic, the compiled statistics show that most of its iOS users prefer native apps to web apps. The ...

Apple files for iPhone instant messaging patent

by Cory Bohon (Apr 21st, 2008)

The one feature that most of us iPhone owners want is native instant messaging. With the upcoming SDK release, instant messaging apps will most likely not be able to run in the background (in other words, they may not receive messages when the phone is sleeping or doing other things). However, ...