ITS HERE, ITS FINALLY HERE!
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Today is the first day of the 2013 A-to-Z Challenge. I will be posting each day of April, except Sundays. Each post will be inspired by the days correlating alphabet letter. I chose ‘Pop Culture or something like it’ as my theme this year. Thank you for visiting, reading and commenting on my posts and good luck to my fellow A-to-Z’ers…
For my A word I chose –APPS- because I really had NO idea what they actually were…
Definition—Application software: computer software designed to help the user perform a certain task such as accounting, reading a newspaper, purchasing tickets, playing games etc. Nicknamed APPS, this software has more recently come to mean software written for mobile devices [phones, iPads etc.] App was the 2010 word of the year.
Most mobile operating systems have there own app stores. The Apple App Store was the first distribution service for apps. They have reported more than 30 billion downloads since July of 2008 and have 650,000 different apps available, some free and some for a fee.
The next Big Thing in apps—
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School are working on a game that could help the blind navigate a public building or to become familiar with a new home.
The players, tasked with finding jewels while avoiding roaming monsters that are trying to steal the jewels and hide them. This game, over time helps its users create a mental map of the area.
I find this all so fascinating and the possibilities are endless. Yes, I do believe in time there will be an App for everything.
To help my grandchildren learn to develop the next big app so I can retire in luxury I am going to make sure they take this free course on ‘How to create Apps’
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/coding-together-developing/id593208016
What are your favorite Apps?
