This should not be a surprise. In a country as wealthy as America, almost everyone who has a mobile phone has made the transition to smartphone. For many, like

This should not be a surprise. In a country as wealthy as America, almost everyone who has a mobile phone has made the transition to smartphone. For many, like my 80 yr old father, this journey was a forced march. He was perfectly happy with his flip phone and it's large, tactile buttons. I was also content not having to provide remote tech support to a man who was alive when horse and carriages were still a viable form of transportation. (As an aside, that generation has really seen some ... stuff). Once his phone succumbed to its planned obsolescence, he had no choice but to upgrade. I tried to introduce him to apps. However, in the 4+ years since he's had a smartphone, he's downloaded and used only two apps: one for checking the lottery and the other is a collection of virtual slot machines. All one has to do is look at their parents, grandparents, elderly relatives, etc. to see that this is assumption is a no-brainer. EDIT: I neglected to mention why I don't consume as many apps as I'd like to. Google, a company whose name has become a synonym for search, and Apple have the most obtuse platforms for discovering them. In the play store, I can only search by keyword. There is only one filter, # of stars and up. There is no way in the app stores to sort the data or filter it by any other means. The recommendations, like most recommendations engines is it or miss. They hide the number of installs an app has (which for me is much more important than the number of stars or ratings it has) until you go to its page/card. I understand why, but smaller apps get buried in the noise anyway. 99% of the apps I install are discovered either through either word of mouth or sites like producthunt