New research shows that although people are using their smartphone apps frequently, more than half of them aren't downloading new ones.
While over 65 percent of people aren't downloading new apps, more than half of smartphone users open their apps on a daily basis, according to ComScore research reported by Gigaom.
The research points to the conclusion that people simply just don't need that many apps.
"A staggering 42 percent of all app time spent on smartphones occurs on the individual's single most used app," reports ComScore.
The majority of the most-used on a person's phone are often developed by one of the six major tech companies - Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay.
The findings are surprising to many, as Apple reported earlier this year that they passed their 75 billion app download mark, according to Tech Spot.
However, Gigaom suggests there may be a lack of downloads in a given month because in 2008 when the mobile app economy was first taking off, people were starting with a blank slate - an empty smartphone. At that time, there was a lot of room to go on an app-downloading frenzy and acquire a lot of apps. But today, many new apps seem like a version of other apps that already to exist, which isn't as exciting to users.
