Amazon Slips To 4th in Global Shopping App Installs Amid Rise of International Brands (geekwire.com) 20
Amazon's leading position in U.S. e-commerce is well-documented, but the latest global rankings for app installs show the potential for newer brands to upend the online shopping juggernaut. From a report: The tech giant ranked fourth globally in shopping app installations for 2021, according to new data from Apptopia. Amazon topped the worldwide ranking last year, as measured by the real-time competitive intelligence platform. Three e-commerce companies leapfrogged Amazon in the global rankings: Shopee, based in Singapore, which serves Southeast Asia and Latin America; Shein, based in China, a leader in "fast fashion;" and Meesho, based in India, which specializes in social e-commerce for categories including fashion and home products. Amazon is still first in Apptopia's U.S. rankings for shopping app installs in 2021. Responding to regulators in the U.S. and elsewhere, Amazon executives have repeatedly made the case that the company's small share of the global retail market, including online and offline sales, falls short of the market power that would warrant aggressive antitrust action. However, as of a few months ago, Amazon was expected to account for more than 40% of U.S. e-commerce sales in 2021, according to eMarketer.
Re:Why would u install a shopping app (Score:4)
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The Kindle is a shopping app. That was its primary function. But you don't have the Google Play or the Apple App store installed on your devices either?
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As far as I am aware, I have not a single shopping app installed on any of my mobile devices except on my Kindle, where I can't de-install it.
Pretty much this.
Amazon's website works fine on my mobile phone, a 3yr old Android (version 11). Do you know why my 3yr old mid range android phone (Nokia 7.1) still runs like butter and has a battery that lasts a full day... because I didn't install every mother-loving app under the sun on it. Just about everything works in a browser these days and most apps are just poorly coded single use web browsers.
Also I can run Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger in the browser for added speed and stabilty.
Mostly ignorance. (Score:3)
While we at /. definitely know that, your parents probably don't - neither do the kids who have grown up entirely in walled gardens on their phones that they essentially consider an organ (must be on at all times, cannot be removed without fatal consequences).
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Because the online marketplaces make crappy HTML for mobile devices. Besides with your normal browser you can do a lot of info collection itself.
When the iPhone was released, it didn't support external Apps, Jobs wanted people to make HTML5 websites scaled to the iPhone, and you can just put a button to make an icon on your phone where you can click on it and it will function like a full app.
However people after nearly 30 years still suck at web development and want to code it like they did in VB6.
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Because the online marketplaces make crappy HTML for mobile devices. Besides with your normal browser you can do a lot of info collection itself.
I generally don't have too much issue with the Amazon mobile website on my phone when I know exactly what I want to buy. But I still prefer to do a lot of research via a computer browser so I can sling around potential purchases to various tabs in different instances of the browser.
Now if you want crappy HTML for mobile devices, just take a look a /. itself. I refuse to use the mobile version because it is so crap, and would rather scroll and pinch/zoom on the full site.
Use a real computer (Score:2)
I know it's so much fun to shop while you're on the toilet, but FFS if you're spending your hard-earned money, maybe pull out the laptop where you can actually see a larger than postage-stamp-sized photo of the thing you're buying?
Re: Why would u install a shopping app (Score:2)
Most places suck even worse at desktop web sites these says. Why can't my bank fit a summary of six accounts on the screen without scrolling anymore, or why canâ(TM)t BA's flight search do any better with its result list? They used to work so much better. Peak UX/UI was about 15 years ago.
Methodology of the Counts? (Score:3)
Is this new downloads, includes version updates,etc.?
Did not obviously see that info in the linked article, or the source it references.
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Is this new downloads, includes version updates,etc.? Did not obviously see that info in the linked article, or the source it references.
The number of application installations is increasing, as the number of smartphone users increases. Same in Vietnam. And here is an example https://bit.ly/3n5g9Wv [bit.ly]
Its a crap app (Score:2)
It’s a shit shopping app.
Duh people don’t want to use it. I hate using Amazon mobile website and their app is even worse.
That’s not even talking about the dick at the head of Amazon people are starting to dislike in droves.
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It’s a shit shopping app.
Duh people don’t want to use it. I hate using Amazon mobile website and their app is even worse.
That’s not even talking about the dick at the head of Amazon people are starting to dislike in droves.
Either that, or.... America really is only a tiny percentage of the world's population.
Did you even bother to look at what the other apps were? They have words like "Asia", "India", "South America" in them.
Probably confusing...
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It is. They have pretty much the worst search on the web (Pinterest is also in the running, though); results are filled with complete irrelevancies, and often don't turn up items with the exact keywords you enter at all.
In addition, Amazon Prime no longer means you get quick shipping; shipping times are extended way out, and there are rarely (if ever) options to get something from them in a hurry. Which really sucks when you're ordering items like hospital bed sheets, CPAP mas
Poor proxy (Score:5, Insightful)
App installs is a poor proxy for the popularity of a shopping site. Lots of people already have the Amazon app installed and don't need to reinstall it. Lots more people just use the website. Lots of people get tricked into installing a shopping app and then never use it. I know this is a radical concept but maybe use total sales to track how popular a shopping site is?
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Here is an actual article that lists revenue and market caps:
https://axiomq.com/blog/8-larg... [axiomq.com]
I thought the big Chinese sites had outstripped amazon. Not so.
Not how anti-trust works (Score:3)
That's not how anti-trust works. U.S. regulators regulate the U.S. market, not the global market. AT&T had little presence outside the U.S. when it was broken up by anti-trust.