Good Windows Phone apps used to be in extremely short supply, but I was pleasantly surprised to see many of the same apps that I use regularly on iOS in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
However, the process is still fragmented with different apps being used to secure different benefits.
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Unlike television shows and motion pictures, which have very distinct age groups that they target, many apps are used by people of all ages.
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One of the apps is used by staff in the state's Hop Inspection Program to report any insect problems in real time, so workers can quickly respond.
Thus far, the releases that have best succeeded in making money have typically been utility apps often used for business purposes, or iOS games monetized through strings of in-app purchases.
Using a widely available file-browsing computer program Katie Notopoulos, a staff reporter at Buzzfeed, found that Snapchat and its Facebook equivalent Poke could be used to copy videos temporarily stored on handsets before the apps have been used to view them.
The company is also changing the name of some Mac apps to those used on the iPhone.
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He says RIM made a push to get the most heavily used apps on the BlackBerry 10.
The group includes the most-commonly used apps such as email, messaging, web browsing and viewing video and photos.
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Since maps are one of the most used apps on the smart phone, this is a major loss.
Fostering the explosion of apps to be used through the iPhone made the device that much more sticky.
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Better yet, those apps can be used to generate sales of additional content.
In the past, such apps were mostly used on laptops or desktop computers.
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In addition, the device's new gesture pad feature, called Quick Command, lets users quickly activate frequently used apps with the S Pen.
However, the data from PrivacyChoice show that several dozen widely used apps are using unapproved companies, most notably Google, the biggest online ad company.
Even more unsettling, three of the top 10 most used apps, including Farmville, have been found to have dished out the IDs of their users' friends.
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Pokki is a window that lists your program categories and recently used apps on the left, and favorite apps in a series of panels on the right.
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Localytics, which has its software installed on over 500 million devices, analyzed the Android tablet market that used apps with Localytics analytics integrated and determined the following.
It can do this, legally, by looking at the top-used apps on Apple and Android and encouraging (if not outright bribing) those publishers to bring their products to Microsoft too.
In the first two weeks of this two year experiment, over 57 of the apps were being used on a daily basis and many of the children were reciting and competing over their knowledge of the ABCs.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of apps (they used to be called applications but the world has gotten that much lazier over the past few years) written by tens of thousands of application developers around the world.
Sense also gets an overdue upgrade to the way it manages applications -- with the icon grid now scrolling up and down in a paginated fashion and being accompanied by subcategories for your downloaded and most frequently used apps -- but our overwhelming feeling remains that we've seen this all before.
Adobe is seeing increasing pricing of its rich Internet apps that are used by Web developers to create rich media web applications such as online games and interactive visualizations and are superior to typical HTML applications because they allow faster task completion, do not require opening up of multiple applications and are less-error prone.
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Those sessions, by and large, are consumed by the use of games and social media apps, which took 47% and 32% of the total amount of time used for such apps.
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Outside of the browser, for apps, it is used everyday on all major mobile platforms.
In 2011, 40% got news mostly through a browser, 21% mostly through apps and 31% used both equally.
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It utilizes application controls that restrict usage of suspicious applications automatically and sets up a black list of apps that cannot be used.
The shortcomings of some pretty widely used MS apps have moved a former Microsoft analyst to help produce a product designed to disrupt them.
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