Flappy Bird
Released: May 24th 2013 IOS, January 30th 2014 Android
Category: Game
Status: Off the market
Flappy Bird is a 2013 mobile game, developed by Vietnam-based developer Dong Nguyenand and published by GEARS Studios, a small, independent game developer also based in Vietnam. The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between rows of green pipes without coming into contact with them. The developer created the game over several days, using a bird protagonist which he had designed for a cancelled game in 2012. At the end of January 2014, it was the most downloaded free game in the iOS App Store. During this period, its developer claimed that Flappy Bird was earning $50,000 a day from in-app advertisements as well as sales.
YouTube
Released: February 14th 2005, June 2007 on mobile
Category: Entertainment
Status: Free
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. Since June 2007, YouTube's videos have been available for viewing on a range of Apple products. This required YouTube's content to be trans-coded into Apple's preferred video standard, H.264, a process that took several months. YouTube videos can be viewed on devices including Apple TV, iPod Touch and the iPhone. In July 2010, the mobile version of the site was relaunched based on HTML5, avoiding the need to use Adobe Flash Player and optimized for use with touch screen controls.] The mobile version is also available as an app for the Android platform. According to GlobalWebIndex, YouTube was used by 35% of smartphone users between April and June 2013, making it the third most used app.
Snapchat
Released: September 2011
Category: Entertainment
Status: Free
Snapchat is a photo messaging application developed by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, using the application, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. These sent photographs and videos are known as "Snaps". Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their Snaps after which they will be hidden from the recipient's device and deleted from Snapchat's servers.
According to Snapchat in May 2014, the app's users were sending 700 million photos and videos per day, while Snapchat Stories content was being viewed 500 million times per day. The company has a valuation of $10–$20 billion depending on various sources.
Cartoon HD
Released: November 12th 2014
Category: Entertainment
Status: Off the market
Cartoon HD is a former free phone app that has been taken down, due to piracy. Although some people can still use the app illegally, Apple still find ways to try and take it down for good. the app was made to allow users to be able to watch a large variety of movies and TV shows, some that were even at the cinema or not even out yet. As well as this, it was a very popular app during its time on the app store.
Angry Birds
Released: December 2009
Category: Puzzle
Status: £0.69
Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the first game was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. As of October 2010, 12 million copies of the game were purchased from Apple's App Store, and then the company started to design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones, including the Android, Symbian and Windows Phone operating systems. It has since expanded to video game consoles and PCs.
Angry Birds has been praised for its successful combination of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to versions of Angry Birds being created for personal computers and gaming consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, spin-offs and television series based on the franchise, and even long-term plans for a feature film.
Instagaram
Released: October 6th 2010
Category: Entertainment
Status: Free
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networkingservice that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. Users can also apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds.
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014. Instagram is distributed through the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Windows Phone Store. Support for the app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android handsets, while third-party Instagram apps are available for Blackberry 10 and Nokia-Symbian Devices.
The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock.[13] In 2013, Instagram grew by 23%, while Facebook, as the parent company, only grew by 3%.
Xbox Smartglass
Released: October 26th 2012
Category: Entertainment
Status: Free
Xbox SmartGlass is a companion application for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles that is compatible with Windows 8 devices, Windows RT tablets, Windows Phone smartphones, Windows Server 2012 PCs, iOS devices and Android smartphones. It was announced by Microsoft during E3 2012 and released on October 26, 2012, coinciding with the release of Windows 8. It connects with the Xbox 360 and allows more interactive entertainment, allowing mobile devices to potentially serve as second screens and remote controller. Providing information such as Halo 4 stats and Forza Horizon GPS.
Users of Windows Server 2012 can currently download the application from the Windows Store after installing the Windows Desktop Experience feature in the Server Manager.
Xbox One Smartglass allows users to manage television and view game statistics and activities otherwise unavailable on the console. Smartglass can be used to snap applications side-by-side on the Xbox One. Smartglass can be also used to send friend messages on Xbox Live.
Subway Surfers
Released: May 23rd 2012
Category: Game
Status: Free
Subway Surfers is an endless action video game presented by Kiloo & SYBO Games. The player takes on the role of an average teen vandalizing a subway train, and is caught by The Inspector and his dog. The player must run away from the police, who is chasing him/her. In the Sydney Update, they added Keys, which revives the character if they use them. The game is available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms.
Launched in 2012, "World Tour" is the theme of the game, wherein cities like New York, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Rome, Tokyo and Miami have been featured till now. Available in iOS, Android platforms, the game features three default characters; Jake, Tricky and Fresh as they dash and dodge trains to escape from the grumpy inspector and his dog.The object of the game is to run as far as possible in a endless game world by avoiding randomly generated obstacles that require the player to either jump, duck and dodge the oncoming trains in a precise manner.
Find My iPhone
Released: June 15th 2010
Category: Utilities
Status: Free
Find My iPhone is an app and service provided by Apple Inc. that allows remote location-tracking of iOS devices and Maccomputers. As of March 2013, the service is currently available for iOS 5 or later through iCloud. Although it is not bundled with the operating system itself, the app is available for download from the App Store free of charge for iOS devices running iOS 5.0 or later.
Temple Run
Released: August 4th 2011
Category: Game
Status: Free
Temple Run is a 2011 endless running video game developed and published by the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios. It is produced, designed and programmed by husband and wife team Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova, and with art by Kiril Tchangov. The game was initially released for iOS devices, and later ported to Android systems and Windows Phone 8.
A sequel to the original game was released on January 17, 2013 for iOS, and on January 24 for Android. As of June 2014, Temple Run and its sequel have been downloaded over 1 billion times.
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