i agree with downvoting this negative thread
makes no sense…wonder what the point is
How many Nigerian apps are even on the app store before you talk about saturation. SMH.
Please let’s keep building more apps.
There are apps not brands, created by one person making money on the store
So true, apps are becoming commodities. The power is with the brand. I can’t remember the number of apps I’ve installed and forgotten about. Unless your app has recurring value to me I will probably delete it after 4 weeks.
Thank you. This comment right here deserves 3 superlikes. This right here is what Im saying. You took the words right out of hands. Like there is so much opportunities in the Nigerian market. The way I look at it is like Nigerian app developers are looking at other markets and ecosystems and they are not paying attention to their own markets and ecosystems. The money is right here. The opportunities are right here. Just look around.
I like the idea of building a brand behind your app. People don’t just download apps for app sake. Even when this is done, most end up never using it. Building a biz around your app is creating a value proposition which then drives download.
I have an app pickme taxi. I have promoted this app on Google AdWords yet no download. Now I want to promote the values this app creates and that way I believe will bring in more download.
@sop_DDy I understand where you are coming from but for you to deny an app in the first place, you must first know what the app does or not do, am I right? How can you just tell somebody that nobody wants your app, when you don’t even know what the does or doesn’t do?
@EzekielJ I feel you, but what do you think is the main reason or just reasons why you think your app doesn’t have a download but yet Uber probably has alot of downloads in Nigeria?
Brand, simple. Huber had built a brand. You think of Huber before how to use it.
Mr. @EzekielJ But did Uber build a brand before the app or was the app before the brand? More than likely, they had a service, right? N in order for their service to work or to communicate with users on a timely basis they had to create something like a phone number, shortcode, website or app to understand their users’ requests, right? So without the Uber App or Uber Website or Uber Phone Number/ShortCode, will Uber’s Service or Uber’s Brand be what it is today? Personally I don’t think so. I believe it was Uber’s App that turned Uber’s Service into an Uber Brand. Or how do you feel?
So many app developers with hurt feelings in here lol. You guys are taking it very personal. Why should he get downvoted for sharing an article?
Nobody is saying there will be no more successful apps.
The points being made are:
App discovery is difficult.
You can’t have all the apps in the ecosystem on your phone. The user makes a conscious choice which apps to keep.
The pressure of that decision increases the longer the phone is being used. More personal data like pictures and conversations are on the phone, leaving less space for apps.
There are already juggernaut apps dominating top priority on these already-crowded phones.
More and more apps are being developed every day.
If you feel your app brings enough to the table that your users will keep you on their device after considering all these things objectively … congrats on being a rarity.
Most apps honestly don’t have that kind of staying power, so saying “nobody wants your app” isn’t a personal slight; it’s the reality for most phone apps in existence.
Thank you @akamaozu. 
It seems all my points were abandoned and the title of the thread is being read literally. Now I understand the power of bias!! 
@Ndianabasi This is cool, We just want to build something like facebook, or a client that asked me to build a social networking site like facebook called Pangolo.com, i was like WOW, And to my fellow developers in the hub that i left, we are all thinking of building some sort of top notch social networking platform instead of building small scalable services that fits the needs of a segment market then grow from there front ending that with a brand, Because the fact is that people only remember brands not apps the world is too noisy for your users to use and find your app, I use to be that developer looking for the different spectacular app to develop using waterfall develop then dump the project due to complexity of the project, I figured out that the likes of alibaba, Facebook, Twitter, Google these people are just selling a brand to use with their wack interfaces then, Locally the likes of Naijaloaded, Linda Ikeji, Iroko, konga these guys are not just building an app but a service with consistency selling to users their brand.
@davidsmith8900 You kind of not getting it. An app is a channel not a brand. A brand is what gets users attention to the app. @Ndianabasi is right on building a brand that drives app download.
Mr. @EzekielJ I am saying that an app is a channel. Just like a phone number, shortcode or website, they are channels to YOUR SERVICE. Can you have a brand before you have a service to provide? You need a service before you get a brand and how do you get people to use your service? By having a channel that they can access that service with, which is either an app, phone number, shortcode or website.
This is not what the post is all about. You don’t have any business as a matter of fact building an app if you don’t intend having a brand. I have a personal experience in this brother. Over $400 spent on promoting my app and the result is not up to 50 downloads. My advice, don’t go build an app thinking many people want your app. You may get lots of download if you SEO is right but what use is that if “Nobody really wants your app”?
So Mr. @EzekielJ what about games? Programming tools? Offline Dictionaries? Offline Maps? Utilities Apps such as Stethoscope for those without Medical Tools, Voltmeter for Electrical Engineers and Flashlights for those who don’t have 24/7 power supply? Those shouldn’t be built because they don’t have brands right? We shouldn’t worry about them, right?
I get your sense of passion and I wouldn’t like to be the one to tell you to stop being passionate about things, but you are keying into the wrong part of the post. “Nobody wants your app” is a pretty strong title, but the message in the content is clear. The examples you listed are all well and good, if you are willing to drive it to the right people while giving them maximum value at the same time. A stethoscope app, while I am not sure how that will work, will definitely benefit from being a part of a bigger service, rather than being standalone. That is the kind of thinking that the article hopes to encourage. Almost every utility app has already been built. You just have to find what makes yours different and stand out (and I don’t mean “yay, new feature”).
I understand where you are coming from Mr. @xolubi. I respect what you are saying.
Can you stop understanding where people “are coming from” or “feeling” them?. It’s a little creepy.
Thanks.
It’s probably just me sha.
@funmi I apologize about that. Sorry about that ma’am. Still, I understand and feel where you are coming from.
lol. No need to apologise for anything.
Commandr is an app built for extending Google Now.
Cool app. No brand. Many dloads/PR. By a student to pay his fees.
As are many apps that do diff things on the app store… translation,video dloads, calendar, audio recording… abeg the list is endless…
Just build your app esp if you a developer…helps with learning new stuff.