An App for That

For all the talk about games and social, the utilities most users can't live without are weather related

February 10 2012
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People use their phones to entertain themselves and stay connected, but most of all, they put them to practical use. According to Forrester Research, weather-related apps were downloaded by 51 percent of mobile users, edging out games (50 percent), social networking (47 percent) and navigation apps (39 percent).

It wasn't always so: games and other casual-use apps used to be the most popular, but they've dropped behind weather and navigation apps in the past year, according to Mobilewalla, a platform that ranks apps.

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