The apps and the ecosystem that Samsung has developed for its Android phones from the Galaxy series, according to research rarely used. Galaxy owners would spend more time within the Google apps.
That set analysts from research firm Strategy Analytics. With the help of his AppOptix app, and a rear panel, they have the mobile use of Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 owners will be mapped. It was by AppOptix measured how many minutes a user monthly a certain app.
The figures show that the various apps from Samsung not to hardly be used. So the users spend an average of 6 seconds per month on ChatOn, a chat application with similar functionality as WhatsApp. Also, Samsung Link and Group Play, which Samsung often pre-installed on Galaxy phones, score very poorly, while the marketplace for software Samsung Apps barely seems to work. The apps, S Memo and S Voice to do something better, in which owners of a Galaxy S4, the Samsung-apps an average of slightly more use.
Google, that are apps on almost all Android phones, it scores considerably better. So is there monthly almost 3.5 hours spent on YouTube and also the Google Play Store allows users to average an hour per month of interest. Google Search is good for about a half an hour.
On average, a Galaxy-owner only 0.6 minute, on the apps of the Android platform from Samsung, compared to just more than an hour on the various Google apps that are examined. The researchers conclude also that the Samsung does not seem to be able to Galaxy-users to its own ecosystem to attract, despite the default presence of his software in its popular Galaxy phones.