Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Apps

Ever since the smartphones started coming out back in 1992 is where apps all began. Smartphones have come a long way since then in just a short period of time to becoming very popular and affordable is when apps went through the roof! One of my favorite sayings is “there’s an App for that”. Pretty much any game, platform, music, or GPS has some kind of app on the smartphone which can come to good use. From having a cellular device on our person 24/7 has brought our generation to spend more time online than any other media. Which most of that mobile time is spent on apps, which has brought apps to become the most dominant form of digital interaction. The reason apps are so popular and are used by pretty much everyone now a days is because consumers want the simplicity and focus that apps provide, rather than the variety found in websites.
Mobile apps have changed the way we live forever, and will continue to do so. From changing our relationships and how we communicate with one another. People are so attached to their phones and are starting to become socially awkward and are missing what is happening around them by only focusing on a false reality that comes from all of the social media apps that are out there. “Our app-driven life: Smart-phone apps are becoming the north star for millions of Americans who use them to navigate through life – shopping, playing, reading, dating, learning, and more with their fingertips.” Although these apps and technology are extremely incredible by making things so much easier for us, but at the same time it is making us lazy by providing no reason to leave the house because we can do pretty much any daily activity through our smartphones. Some different apps that I use on a daily basis are Instagram, Pandora, Facebook, Gmail, Venmo, Snapchat, and Google Maps just to name a few. This just shows how much apps are used in our daily lives.


3 comments:

  1. Do you think mobile apps will ever get replaced by something bigger and better? Nice Post!

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  2. Apps can definitely destroy society if used in the wrong way, but I feel that the benefits outway the cons. Apps have saved us so much time and money, as well as stimulate the economy with many start-up just from apps.

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