Comment by array_key_first
15 days ago
I think this just fundamentally does not track, because the vast, vast majority of phone users are not regularly using a spreadsheet app.
When we imagine phone applications, we think messaging, social media, web browsing, and email. That's 99% of stuff people do on their phone.
The statistic of "how many people have this app installed" is fundamentally flawed. Why? Most apps are worthless. Throwaways, single purpose.
Its entirely possible, and dare I say extremely likely, that people install (or it came installed!) Google sheets for one document that was shared one time, then forgot about it.
It seems improbable to me that photography, video recording, video games, phone calls, digital payments, video calls, tethering, and charging the battery would all be outside of that 99%. Possibly you don't know very much about how the vast, vast majority of phone users use their phones, for example because your friends and family aren't typical of Indonesians, Nigerians, Indians, and Chinese people.
Or because you aren't especially interested in whether what you're saying is true or false, since it is—to me at least—obviously wrong. And you're surely somewhat aware of how atypical your circle of friends is among, for example, either Malaysians or Texans, and probably both.
None of those are spreadsheets... And a lot of those are built into the phone. Like phone calls, digital payments, video, photography.
I just think using spreadsheets as a measure of an application repository for phones is obviously stupid.
Please bear in mind that things like the playstore aren't android phone stores. They're Android stores. Meaning, they also target tablets and chromebooks.
Now, I'm sure Google sheets on an android tablet is perfectly mediocre. But I can assure you, on a phone, it is downright painful.