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The launch of ChatGPT has been called the iPhone moment for artificial intelligence, ushering in the start of a new era in computing. With that in mind, we note that in 2008 the most downloaded paid mobile app was Koi Pond, and the most popular free app was Pandora Radio. Neither are very popular today. A similar pattern was observed on the internet. In the year 2000, at the height of the dot com era, the most visited website in the US was AOL, and the most often used search engine was Yahoo. Today, AOL’s website is ranked 39th, and while Yahoo sits in the 5th position, its search function is now powered by Microsoft’s Bing. Market leaders must keep an eye on what is ahead, as well as what might sit behind. The number two free mobile app in 2008 was Facebook.
Source: Omdia Research, Visual Capitalist, January 2024.