The second quarter of the year 2020, is offering us figures very far from the usual, due to the fact that billions of people have had to shape-shift work and study overnight, becoming locked in their homes to avoid being infected by the coronavirus.
While gasoline consumption and environmental pollution have plummeted, the use of digital has exploded, being forced all the video companies in streamimg, to reduce the bandwidth to prevent the internet in Europe from crashing due to the high use of these services practically all day.
If we talk about digitalWe also have to talk about app downloads. Many are the applications that users have downloaded during this pandemic, some out of boredom and with the intention of passing the time, others out of the need to keep in touch with friends and family.
According to Sensor Tower, the number of downloads in the Play Store, both applications and games, during the second quarter of 2020 has been more than 28.000 million, a number that represents an increase of 34,9% compared to the same period of the previous year, in which no one could imagine how our lives would change with COVID-19.
The Apple App Store, logically, has also seen the number of downloads grow, but to a lesser extent, up to 9.100 million downloads, with an increase of 22.6% compared to the same period in 2019.
Most downloaded apps in Q2020 XNUMX
In the Apple App Store, the most downloaded application during this period has been Zoom, with 94 million downloads and TikTok in second position with 67 million downloads.
If we talk about the Play Store, despite the fact that Zoom has increased its downloads by 200% to exceed 200 million downloads, failed with TikTok, the most downloaded application within the Android ecosystem during the months of April to June.
If you geographically limit the download data to the United States and Europe, Zoom has been the most downloaded application on both platforms.
If we talk about games, the game Save the china! from the Lion Studios, has been the most downloaded game on both platforms and worldwide with more than 100 million downloads together.
