Google-developed Android apps the most popular in India

Related Stories: Google reportedly prepping a Siri rival... Yahoo launches AppSpot for Android and... Numbers reveal: BlackBerry owners looking... According to a survey conducted by Nielsen Informate panel, the Android applications developed by Google are the most popular in India. The survey says the Indian smartphone users spend about 25 per cent of their time on Google-developed Android apps, while rest of the 75 per cent includes all other apps.

The Nielsen Informate panel survey further points out the Google apps dominate in five out of seven app categories, while Facebook and Nimbuzz lead as the most popular social networking and chatting apps respectively in India. In terms of time spent, Google’s apps lead in the Search, GPS, e-mail and streaming video segments. Breaking down the usages of Google apps, the Android Market is the most popular Google app in India, followed by YouTube and Gmail. These result patterns were found across the age groups and in terms of time spent per day.

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