Activity 5

Apps

What are apps? App is short for ‘application’ – which is another name for a computer programme. People are usually referring to programmes that run on mobile devices such as Smartphones or tablet computers. They are a way to perform almost any task on your phone and in just a few years they have become a phenomenon. There are over 500,000 apps available on the iPhone alone, and these numbers continue to grow.

With so many apps to choose from, people have a wide and varied choice to meet their needs. On apple devices they have the ‘App Store’. On Android devices it’s the ‘Android market’, on Windows Phone the ‘Windows Marketplace’ and on Nokia phones it’s the ‘Ovi Store’. Apps range in price from being free to £50.