The evolution of mobile apps

How much is Has the world of smartphone applications changed? Techaheadshowed how smartphone apps have evolved over the years. Let's think of the first to insert a gaming app into the mobile phone, Nokia's Snake or the first smart phone made by IBM in which they were already Apps such as calculator, clock, calendar and address book are present. The first apps that come close to today's concept of applications arrived in 2008 with version 2.0 of Apple's operating system. The Apple Store, and shortly after the Android Market, made it possible to implement the most popular programs on smartphones and tablets. we are interested in. 

If at the beginning it was the Apple store that reigned, over time the gap has widened. reduced, to the point of overtaking it: to date, the App Store of iOS has around 2.2 million applications and the Google Play of Android includes 2.8 million.

What are the most popular smartphone apps? downloaded?

In 2011, the app that obtained the most download is was ""Temple Run""; the video game is been downloaded 100 million times. The following year ""Draw something"" reached 1 million downloads in just 9 days, while ""Angry Birds"" achieved 2 million in 4 years. Initially, the apps that received the most attention those dedicated to games have been successful: 63% of iOS apps are in fact made up of gaming apps such as the very famous ""Candy Crush"".

Once the frenzy of online mobile games has passed, the apps that continue to be the most downloaded and used are those dedicated to mobile messaging such as WhatsApp. The phase we are in sees Social Networks and related apps in first place, such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

If at the beginning the mobile apps were purely useful, as soon as they became having moved on to games, smartphones have covered an important segment dedicated to entertainment. At least 5 years had to pass before we understood the real possibilities of this type of tools: the real-time sharing of experiences and information.