How Mobile Apps Has Changed Our Lives

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Number of apps is increasing exponentially in the past 5 years. In 2013, a report points out that around 103 billions mobile apps have been developed.(Gartner, 2013) The various kinds of apps, for instance, social networking apps, academic apps, instant communication apps, are enhancing the experience of smartphones users according to their preferences. In these five years, apps has changed our lifestyle significantly that we are now working with apps but not paper. This shows that apps is probably the most important game changer recently.

In the past, mobile phones solely contain the built-in function, such as, a fixed calendar function, a fixed camera function. All the functions on the phones were fixed. Users can only use those functions provided by the …show more content…

Indeed, apps have a lasting impact due to the work by Apple. Apple create an absolutely perfect platform for purchasing and downloading apps, App Store. Every users can easily access to App Store and browse what they need. Every developers can easily put up their app for selling and earn extraordinary profit. Under such flawless environment, users and developers buy and sell apps sustainably. We can see the number of download is accelerating from 2008 to 2013. App store already have 40 billion downloads in half 2013. The number equals to that of 2012 alone(“App Store Tops”, 2013). Besides creating the perfect platform, Apple also acts as a pioneer who lead the trend of setting up the digital distribution platform for mobile apps. Apple started the App Store on July 9, 2008. Followed by App Store, Google started its Android Market, which is a platform run by Google(“A Brief History”, 2009). Until now, the two stores dominate apps market. If Apple does not take the pioneer role, other platforms will not appear and apps cannot have the lasting impact. Therefore, Apple’s work create a massive and permanent impact on

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