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What Is An App?

What is an App

Deemed "word of the year" by the American Dialect Society, App is short for application, an application you can download into your smart phone to make it serve you in the areas most important to you. Smart phone makers can't put everything you might be interested in inside a smart phone for you to buy off the shelf, there are billions of people out there and they all have values different from one another. So how does that explain what an App is you might ask? Think of a App as a program you can download into your phone that makes your phone serve as a tool for a specific task of your interest, your life style, or your work. All Apps are not created equal. Some work well and others don't. Some Apps might make sense to one person and not to the next. An example of this might be a recently released App that you download into your phone and it tells you where the all the great white sharks are. You start it up and input the beach where you want to go swimming or surfing and it will tell you if any great white sharks are in the area. Not everyone is interested in where the white sharks are so they don't need their phones to tell them where all the great white sharks are. 

How does that work you might ask? It works off the satellite that tracks sharks with tags/flags that have been stapled into the tip of their dorsal fin and when the shark comes up to the surface the tag can be picked up by the satellite, that information is then picked up by the App which has been programmed to read that signal. The problem with this App in my opinion is that it can be very dangerous. How you might ask? What if you’re App says there are no white sharks in the vicinity of the beach you intend to swim or surf, but in fact there are? My point being, not all white sharks have been tagged! How could they be? Even if they were all tagged that doesn't account for new births or sharks that haven’t' surfaced for a long time. The ocean is the largest presence on the face of our entire planet. Don't let the arrogance of mankind hurt you. We don't know as much as we'd like to think, but we will play it up as such. Now, getting back to Apps, Apps are a wonderful idea and a marketing genie for niche products and services. IT is short for Information Technology, in short, your computer, all computers and any device that provides you with information of one kind or another.

 All Apps are doing is providing you with technology you can personalize for your own work, interests, or recreations and the list grows as more and more Apps are being created. Some Apps are free, in fact as this concept was in its infant stage most if not all Apps were free, but as time passed and the creators of Apps began to see their usefulness a price tag was added to them, various prices for various Apps. You can even have an App designed to your own specification, for example, let’s say you have a young child and want an App that tracks the locations of all known pedophiles, well this is information available to the public anyway, but with an App it's put at your finger tips 24/7 right in your cell phone. By the way don't go out to have an App like this made, there is already one on the market. There are even App stores going up around the country, that's how prolific the App industry is growing. We just had an Android (works on phones with the Android operating system) app made for the Jimisound.com website. Some users say it works and other say they're not that happy with it, to be continued. The point of having a App for a website is to make the site smart phone friendly, in other words the App scales the site down so it can be viewed and it's components can be functional on a phone screen, this in turn allows your site visitors to access your site from their cell phones while they are on the move.

Apps have invaded the world of computer and smart phone users and there will be many more Apps coming out over the coming years. The potential use of Apps is unlimited, Apps are the next logical step for IT and personal computering and of course their primary target is the cell phone. I support Apps, but please use common sense in choosing and relying on them, don't let life pass you by while you’re living through an App.