China, the United States, and Russia. When we hear the names of these three countries, we think of the power struggle among them at the economic, military, and diplomatic levels; but it seems that a battle is also underway among these three global powers in the arena of mobile apps and platforms. The Chinese platform TikTok, which falls in the entertainment apps category, ranked first among mobile applications by number of downloads in 2022. The fifth most popular mobile app, Telegram, is also a Russian platform.
The number of downloads of an application tells us how many of the world's users consider that program essential on their mobile phones. After TikTok, the three social networks Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, with 547, 449, and 424 million downloads, took second through fourth place. All of the top U.S. apps among the five leading platforms by downloads are subsidiaries of Meta. Of course it should be noted that a popular platform such as YouTube is installed by default on Android phones.
The most popular mobile platforms are also social networks. Even TikTok fully has the structure of a user-centered social network. In the subsequent rankings are apps related to games, music, and services. Toward the end of 2022 a new category was also added to the most-downloaded apps: artificial intelligence.
Although many travel, food, and online store apps, including Google Maps, McDonald's, and Shein, were able to have high download rates in 2022, in the end it was the artificial intelligence apps Lensa and ChatGPT that recorded the largest increase in downloads at the end of last year.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian