IHS report: Sports and fitness apps are getting more and more popular

"Sohu It News" Beijing time July 15 news, according to foreign media reports, the market research agency IHS reported that sports and fitness applications will be more and more popular, the download will be 156 million from 2012 to 2017 248 million times, the growth rate of 63%. "More and more consumers are aware that fitness is not just going to the gym, but it also includes recording exercise goals, checking for exercise, understanding the health of the body," said Shane Walker, senior manager at IHS Consumer and Digital Health, Sanny Walker. Currently, sports and fitness applications have become a part of the daily lives of millions of of mobile users, using smartphones to record exercise and detect heart rhythms. According to IHS Data, 62% of users interested in sports and fitness applications plan to buy hardware to better perform software performance. "This is a very large potential user base for fitness sensor manufacturers," Walker said. Walker predicts that future sports and fitness applications will be able to support wireless technology to communicate with external sensors and monitors to show the data to the user in a more meaningful way.　　In addition, these applications will support users to share fitness information on social networks. Currently, more than 10,000 apps are associated with sports and fitness, but most of them have never been downloaded by a user. According to IHS data, since April, the top 20 sports and fitness applications have reached 231 million downloads, far more than other types of application downloads. (Kuke)