You've been using an awful lot of shopping apps lately
Year-end mobile use statistics are usually pretty predictable, at least in terms of overall growth -- Spoiler Alert: It goes up every year -- but 2014 was actually somewhat surprising, if Yahoo's Flurry analytics is to be believed. According to the company's data, the biggest app growth category was Lifestyle & Shopping, which grew an astounding 174%, year-over-year.
Other notable big movers include Utilities & Productivity which grew 121%, Messaging at 103%, and Health & Fitness with 89% growth. Games -- which have long been a main source of revenue in the App Store -- grew the least of all, with just a 30% bump over the previous year. Of course, as app gaming is already a massive market on its own it could be argued that there's not that much more room left to expand each year, while shopping apps clearly had plenty of room to grow.
