“It is predicted that there will be nearly 269 billion app downloads in 2018. If you laid all of those 269 billion app icons end to end, they would stretch to the moon and back 500 times.
But let’s not kid ourselves that apps are a new thing. 'App' is, of course, short for Application, and we’ve all been forking out for applications and programs since the 70's.”(Calvium, 2016)