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A lot of people still go to say yahoo.com for their news. The default is good enough for them.

My Dad: "What's this 'News' app?" Me: "It's new with iOS 9. It's a little news reader. You tell it what you're interested in, and it'll show you articles." Dad: "Cool" <proceeds to spend an hour with it>

You may be surprised.

But it's a default auto-installed app (on iOS9) and the headlines are on the search / Siri Suggestions screen. I'd be surprised if it doesn't already have a huge market...

It doesn't.

So very few of those auto-installed apps ever see any use. iTunes (or "Apple Music", or whatever it's called now) might be the only exception.

Maybe for you (and me too) but for the general public, the default apps are used a hell of a lot. 50% of users use the default notes app[1], for example. Apple Maps (which based on the press, many might assume isn't used at all) has 3.5x the usage of Google Maps[1].

I don't know whether there are any other stats out there, but I suspect that for most people, there's no need to install a custom podcast app, for example, when the default one works just fine for them.

[1] https://www.macstories.net/news/the-numbers-from-apples-wwdc...

With iOS9 notes become quite fun.