Google Photos has been one of the best appearances as a new app in 2015. Launched since Google I / O 2015, the developer conference that is held annually and that is one of the central axes for Android for the year, Google Photos It is positioned as a gallery app with certain characteristics of great importance in which we can find the algorithm to recognize the elements in a photo or that infinite capacity to load images and video in HD format. In a very few months, precisely on October 21, this app passed 100 million users active around the world. Quite a figure for an app that started from scratch.
If we now have an app that has grown considerably in this year 2015 and in which the number of installations on Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and many others in the United States can be included, it is Facebook Messenger that takes the prize in this appearance. And it is that this Facebook app for communication between family and friends from its social network has been the app that has grown the most this year that we are about to leave according to the Nielsen firm. Quite a great achievement for one of the riskiest bets by Facebook when it separated the messages through a mobile device on Facebook to pass them to a completely independent app itself.
Facebook Messenger growing like foam
It should be mentioned that the data collected by this firm was from January 2015 to October 2015 and that they have been compared to the same period, but last year 2014. Also, comment that Facebook has now 126 million users and that has seen an 8 percent increase in one year. Something quite considerable for what is one of the largest social networks in years.
After Facebook we have YouTube with 97 million users and an increase in users of 5 percent, while Facebook Messenger has reached 96 million with an incredible 31 percent growth, which has made it the app that has grown the most in 2015 by a large margin of difference compared to many others on that list.
The other two missing from that top five are Google Search and Google Play with 96 and 95 million respectively. Facebook and Google dominated the top 8 most popular apps in a year, with Apple taking ninth and tenth places with its Apple Music and Apple Maps. A curious fact is that the App Store is not seen among the top ten most installed apps when we do have the Google play Store in the top five.
Android with the king's crown in the US
Nielsen also offers more information on the most popular operating system in the United States. Android takes part of the reign with 52,6 percent, while Apple's iOS remains with 42,7 percent. Microsoft is left by the remnants with a paltry 2,8 percent market share. Other tiny percentages are carried by Blackberry with 0,7% and 1,2 percent for other OS.
So going back to Facebook Messenger, we are left with an app that has won in just one year a third of all its users. A huge figure for an app that has been offering pleasant news such as the no need to use a Facebook account to log into it or what are video calls through this app. Be that as it may, the movement promoted by Mark Zuckerberg's company has been a success and they can already count it as a great victory in the difficult market that apps already are, where to launch an independent one, even if it is under the Under the protection of the great Facebook, it can also become a failure if you do not know how to make the transition well.
