The importance of Apps on cellphones

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By Ashton Wimbury
Husky Herald Reporter

  Dictionary.com defines an app as, “a self-contained program or piece of software designed to fulfill a particular purpose”.  You could say apps are what makes up a phone altogether, especially phones such as  iPhones or Androids.

  Apps are very convenient and when it comes to them, there is a huge number of options to choose from.         Typically, you can just think of something, search it, and odds are there is an app for it.

  Different people have different apps.  Looking at the multiple apps obtained in one’s phone can actually tell a lot about a person.   

  “Soccer stars is a really convenient app for me,” said Meredith Stephens (‘16).

  Everyone loves an app that entertains.  Whenever people are bored they can easily just take out their phone and use an app to be entertained.  There is game apps, television apps, and even apps where you can share your own content.

  “I like Rapchat  because it allows me to spit my fire and share it with the world.  Beyonce even offered me to be her opener,” said Garrett Lance (‘16).

  Instead of having to go through the process of  going online for social media websites, they can be right there with one touch of an app.  With social media being put as apps, it allows phone users to quickly be able to stay updated on other people’s lives.

  “With having social media like Twitter as an app, it is so much quicker than having to go on a computer,” said Heidi Wilson (‘16).

  The many efficient apps can really help out a person.  There is weather, maps, google, and so much more.   The weather apps can help people see the current and future weather, the GPS just requires you to type in the address and it will guide you there, and google allows you to quickly search whatever you want.  All of them are so simple, yet very useful.

  “I like to use the map app in order to get around locations I am not use to being in,” said, Erica McClelland (‘16).

  There is so many apps, but there is still so many yet to be made.  People come up with creative ideas and turn them into a piece of software useful to countless people.  Apps might be a small program on our phones, but they have had a large impact on the modernization of our world.