The World of Apps

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“Poori duniya meri mutthi mein!” Do you remember this statement? Well it has come true and in all literal sense. Most of us have a smartphone and our life revolves around apps. It looks like for anything and everything, there is an app (barring a few exceptions!). Of course the kind of apps a young boy / girl would have in his / her smartphone would be certainly different with those which are enjoyed by their parents, which then further vary with those which find space in the smartphones of their grandparents. However, some are extremely common, and cannot be just done without.

The whole pack is led by ‘WhatsApp messenger’ (you can talk too) followed by ‘Facebook messenger’ & ‘Facebook’, ‘Instagram’, which is a no brainer. I’m sure the one adorning the number 5 spot will surprise you; it’s ‘Cleanmaster’, an effective mobile cleaner, which frees the RAM by click of a button. Since the purpose of my this blog is to introduce you to ‘The World of Apps’, I will share those ones which are of high utility / are interesting.

Inside ‘The World of Apps’, there is a mini-world of Google, starting with a ‘Gmail’ for personal emails to segregate them from the office emails which one takes on e.g. ‘TouchDown’. ‘Chrome’ browses, while ‘Play Music’ beats the drums and plays the guitar. The ‘Maps’ helps you reach your destination, while you enjoy watching videos and the ‘YouTube’. You can read your books on ‘Play Books’ when you are watching movies on ‘Play Movies’ or playing games on ‘Play Games’. Time and again, you do use (or can start, if not already using) the ‘Drive’ as a storage and a ‘File Manager’ to retrieve your files.

Now-a days, you use ‘Twitter’ to express your feelings / opinion in short 140-character (and no more) messages called tweets. If you are running short of time, quickly glance through a variety of news items in ‘inshort’ (60 words only!). Reading articles, etc. offline is facilitated by ‘Pocket’. Then there are banking apps like ‘HDFC Bank’ and stock market trading apps like ‘HDFC Sec’. While a ‘TuneIn Radio’ offers you world music, so does ‘SoundCloud’. If you wish to motivate yourself, listen to the ‘TED’ talks and then professionally connect on ‘LinkedIn’. Then there is a ‘Skype’ to talk over phone while a ‘Caynax A6W’ to build your abs.


If at any point you are looking for anything more, there is always a ‘Play Store’.

Comments

  1. pankbajApril 9, 2016 at 7:07 AM

    Smartphone is smart made smart by applications, but what about the person using it. Only for a smart person is the phone smart, for majority of others it's a rat race of being able to express themselves unsmartly which they feel is smart by using only WhatsApp or Facebook.

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  2. Vinay BajajApril 10, 2016 at 7:06 AM

    Very well captured traits of people in the rat race!

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