Covid-19 drives up global mobile app data consumption

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a monumental increase in mobile app downloads across the globe, which amounts to 596 petabytes.As per a report published by Sensor Tower, data consumed by mobile app downloads have gone up by 52 percent in comparison with the three-year average for first quarter usage. The data analysis comes from first-time installs of the top 250 mobile apps worldwide and excludes apps downloaded from APK mirrors or secondary app stores. Only popular apps were taken f