The most downloaded apps of 2016

2016 has been a tumultuous year for the digital age: the advent of virtual reality, long gone and to the times when related it to the cyberpunk fantasy of films like The Lawnmower, has been received with great enthusiasm by the general public and by terminal devices, by adapting its technology screens QHD that would allow a total quality immersion. The commitment to video in practically all of the most important social networks (live video on Twitter and Facebook, the Instagram Stories, YouTube and the 360º) has also meant an injection of vital downloads for app developer companies to stay in the gap and eat a large piece of the 2.0.

According to the Nielsen company, information company and one of the largest sources of market information, media andon-line information has just published a report in which it gives a good account of the most downloaded applications of this 2016 : a good thermometer to learn a little more about the user's tastes and thus mark the possible consumption trends for the year 2017 that is about to fall.

First places

The Top 5 of the most downloaded applications of 2016 leave us with a panorama with hardly any news compared to other years. The most downloaded application of this year that is already leaving us is, of course, Facebook, no matter how poorly optimized it is, no matter how much RAM it consumes, the Facebook app is the star of 2016 with no less than 146.027,000 active users on average. Very close to it, of course, its twin application, Facebook Messenger Very controversial decision by the company of Mark Zuckerberg that of adding a new application to your messaging service instead of being able to access it from the mother app. Without Facebook Messenger it's impossible to see if someone has started a chat with you. It is even impossible to access this section from the web version of Facebook. Either you download it... or you download it.

Google appears in third place

To meet the friend Google we have to descend to third place. And it is YouTube the queen of the applications of the cybernetic monster: almost 114 million average users. Up to position 8 the list is owned by Google: by order we find Google Maps (105.749,000), Google Search (103,959,000), Google Play (99,773,000) and Gmail (88.572.000).

Snapchat and Twitter Where are they?

In position 8 we once again have the good old Zuckerberg: Instagram appears with 74,672,000 average users, leaving no option to Snapchat or Twitter, that doesn't even appear in the top ten most downloaded apps of 2016. The Second to last option is for the music streaming service Apple Music (68,392,000) and the Amazon app store (65,511,000). This is how the top 10 of the most downloaded applications in 2016 remains.

Did you expect any surprises? Did you trust that Twitter or Snapchat would have a primary place in this top 10 of the most downloaded applications in 2016? In terms of downloads, Facebook has eaten up the giant Google. How about? Leave us your opinion in the comments section.