At this point, apps are an integral part of our daily lives. App is an abbreviated form of the word "application." Apps are pieces of software that can run on the internet, your computer or a mobile devise. It’s designed to perform a specific function directly for the user or, in some cases, for another application program.
The marketplace is crowded with all types of mobile apps. There are apps for everything, from learning a language to booking movie tickets, from shopping to dating, computer programming & software and of course games and social media. Today, even businesses who never would’ve needed apps in the past are getting into the game.
Different types of apps include:
Web app - stored on a remote server and delivered over the Internet through a browser interface.
Native app - has been developed for use on a particular platform or device. A Native app can only be “Native” to one type of mobile operating system: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows phone, WebOS, etc
o Dedicated Web App: A website that is tailored to function on a mobile device. These are tailored to a specific platform and will not work on other smartphones or feature phones
o Generic Mobile App: A mobile website that will work with all mobile phones.
o Hybrid app - combines elements of both native and Web applications and are often mentioned in the context of mobile computing.Killer app - a program that intentionally or unintentionally gets you to buy the system the application runs on.
Legacy app - has been inherited from languages, platforms, and techniques earlier than current technology.
Mobile app - is a type of application software designed to run on a mobile device, such as a smartphone, ipad, ipod, or tablet computer. Mobile applications frequently serve to provide users with similar services to those accessed on PCs.
While some are doing their best to stay ahead of the tech curve, many are simply meeting customer demand for an app that makes their lives easier and better.
Let us concentrate on the mobile apps for now. As such there are wide variety of mobile apps that fit into an increasingly vast array of categories. Let us take a look on some pretty well known mobile apps.
Lifestyle Mobile Apps
Everyone has this distinct character that makes us different and lifestyle apps help us be who we are when we're on-the-move. Elevating an individual’s facets of their lifestyle is what this apps is all about. From dating, dining, shopping and hobbies, lifestyle app has these.
Some examples of Lifestyle apps are:
o Spotify
o Uber
o Google Earth
o Tripadvisor
o Slimming World
Social Media Mobile Apps
Social media apps are considered to be the most popular, to young and old alike. This apps gives users instant and real-time access from anywhere they have access to the Internet. Social media apps have to be easy, fun, fast, and should continually updating and adding extensive features of the social networks they support.
Some common social media apps are:
o Facebook
o Instagram
o Tweeter
o Telegram
o Reddit
o Slack
Utility Mobile Apps
Utility software is used on a daily basis by everyone. We use them so often we don’t even realize it as app. Many of them come pre-installed on your device and serve a single function. These are the types of apps that we used in the shortest of time. We use these to just get things done and move on. For example, we set an alarm or check the dates on calendar and then put it away after use.
Some examples of common types of mobile apps in the utility category are:
o Reminders
o Calculator
o Flashlight
o Weather
o Speed Test
Games Mobile Apps
By far the most popular, huge, and as such, very competitive and has the biggest market, hence the most profitable.
Last year’s Pokémon Go was a rocket ship — it broke download records and it raced to $500 million in revenue quicker than any app in history. Now it won yet another accolade, according to a new report from app analytics firm Sensor Tower, Pokémon Go reached $1 billion, in just 6 months, making it a billion dollar business in less than a year.
Some examples of game apps are:
o Angry Birds
o Clash of Clans
o Pokémon Go
o Candy Crush
o Minecraft
Entertainment apps
With entertainment app come streaming, chatting, searching events, watching videos online, posting photos to Instagram and so on. This app is for users to engaged and to be entertained and never be bored again, that’s for sure.
Examples of entertainment apps:
• Netflix
• HBO
• Spotify
• Dubsmash
• ESPN
• Amazon Prime Video
• Amazon Kindle
• NBC – Watch Now and Stream Full TV Episodes
• Sky
• You Tube
Productivity Mobile Apps
It may sound boring compared to all mobile apps, but this is also a popular category. These types of apps help users accomplish a task quickly and efficiently, making what are sometimes mundane tasks easier but fun.
Examples of productivity apps are:
o Docs
o Sheets
o Wallet
o Wunderlist
News / Information Outlets Mobile Apps
News and information apps are pretty straightforward. They supply their users with the news and information they’re looking for in an easy to understand layout that efficiently navigates them to the things they care about most.
Examples of different types of popular news apps are:
o Buzzfeed
o Smartnews
o Google News & Weather
o Yahoo News Digest
o Linkedin Pulse
Finance Mobile Apps
Managing your money is no exception, and from simple bank account management to more complex financial planning, there is little you can’t do now while on the go. This app helps to manage your money with ease and without the need to visit your local bank.
Examples of finance app are:
• Mint
• Venmo
• Level Money
• Qapital
• PayPal
• Budget Boss
Let us divulge more with finance mobile app. Finance apps help us remember to pay bills, keep an eye on account balances, and stay within our budgets—things we need to do daily and for which we often need reminders. But there is more to it than that. Finance app also helps you get started in investing. From such app, you can buy, sell, and monitor your investment funds.
As people are becoming aware of cryptocurrency and its possible ROI, Skraps developed the ground-breaking microfinance app that enables all types of investors to invest securely and effortlessly in cryptocurrencies. It’s app focussed mainly on making the small change to add up. Users can invest their spare change from cryptocurrency or fiat transactions into a diversified cryptocurrency- related portfolios to earn the rewards of consistent investing less the cognitive burden of investing but in a smooth and easy way.
Now, Skraps is launching an interesting Initial Coin Offering (ICO) campaign to raise money for its development. ICO dates January 15, 2018 – February 15, 2018.
SKRAPS Platform Benefits and requirements
• No minimum or maximum amount of investment required
• No minimum or maximum balance
• No withdrawal fees
• Instant payment processing
• Instant withdrawals
• Anonymous
Skraps buying advantage
- Easy buying process.
- Use 6 different coins so a clever investor will use the coin which is high during the buy.
- $ pegged pricing so, you are actually benefiting from the price fluctuation
- Buy from any account, be it coinbase, bittrex or any exchange, none is prohibited.
- Deposit coin and buy when you want. Thus, you can deposit some coins leave it and purchase your crypto choice when it peaks
- Instant ref links, and get 10% referral bonus. Payable in Eth and not in SKRP.
- Instantly updated referral earning balance. It’s all automatic.
Skraps created a convenient feature that allows users to invest in a smooth and easy way. The developers got creative and come up with a way to do things that nobody else is doing.
Skraps charges 1 token per month. Now that is more than a bargain compared to most traditional brokers charges.
Cheap, fun and easy.. that is the Skraps way!
SKRAPS
Invest your Cryptocurrency Change into Diversified Cryptocurrency Portfolios
For more details please note the following important links:
Official website: http://ico.skraps.io/#
Token Sale: https://skraps.typeform.com/to/S7LlFO
SKRAPS Whitepaper: http://ico.skraps.io/SKRAPS_White_Paper.pdf
Ann Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2520387.0