what's app?

What’s app?

Keeping up with the ever changing world of media

mobilities.

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by Shelby Stanley

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Ever feel like

you’re not with

the times?

Like EVERYTHING

is changing…

right before your eyes?

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We’ve come a LONG WAY since the firsthandheld phone in 1979

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Today, there are more than 4.6

billion cell phones in

use

More than 370 times the number in use in 1990

[source: Wilson Electronics, Inc.]

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With over 1.9 billion mobile phones sold in 2009, mobile technologies are growing more and MORE popular every year

[Source Sybase Inc]

Nowadays, cell phones do

more than just make

calls

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How much more you ask?

Welcome to the mobile world of apps

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Application software, also known as an "app", is computer software designed to

help the user perform singular OR multiple related specific tasks.

[source Wikipedia, “apps”]

There are over 350,000 apps available to download at the Apple “App store”

[source: www.apple.com]

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There are apps for music…

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Apps for working out…

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Apps for managing

money

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Apps for traveling

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Let’s not forget SOCIAL apps

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and GAMING apps

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All within the comfort of your favourite mobile device.

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In 2008 Google launched Android

and the Android app market

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Android now has over 150,000 apps available to download…instantly

[source: cnet.com]

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Apps allow mobile access to THOUSANDS of onlinetools for sharing information.

It’s as easy as a tap!

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So what does this ALL mean?

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New technological mobilities have transformed the way we EXPERIENCE

and CONSUMEinformation

Instantly downloading an app is an efficient way to participate, engage, and share with a

consistently changing

media market.

Change is GOOD…

THAT’S what’s app.