#193: Update Treadmill.

Developing Perspective · Aug 8, 2014 · 14m

Today I’m going to dive into the world of app updates. Why we do them, how often we do them and whether they are important.

Context

I did a long analysis of the update trends in the App Store. I recommend you visit that yourself but the short version is:

50% of Top Apps are have been updated in the last 3 months (26% overall)

86% of Top Apps in the last year (60% overall)

300,000 apps were updated in the last 3 months.

480,000 apps are effectively abandoned (no updates in last year)

Types of Updates

An actual shipped update might include more than one of the following categories but it is…