A lot of the smart phones today and in fact many standard cell phones now have apps that can be downloaded and installed. These generally are downloaded from an app store of some kind that is usually specific to the kind of phone you have. And so far they haven’t yet been accessible for your computer. That however, is changing.
Apps are actually small software applications. They can be games, productivity software that help you to be structured and remain on top of your daily life, or maybe applications which change the way or augment the way in which your phone works..
The initial apps had been popular with Macintosh iPhone and iPad and then when the iPad came out that too. With time other major smart phone businesses began to offer their own apps in their stores. These apps were designed by a third party and were purchased by the manufacturers prior to them being available on the open market.
Many games and additional software items much like these are already available online to be installed on your computer. The real difference will be the manner in which they’re bought, the cost, as well as the security.
Purchasing on the internet presently makes it necessary that you either take a risk on the software being secure and clean-free of viruses, otherwise that you have to go to a trusted source and pay the often higher price tag. Free software may also be available but frequently ad supported and even worse-it may very well hide unwanted extras that may result in your computer being infected with malware.
You will get software through most of the app stores, which would be secure because they have been checked for viruses. They are usually more cost effective too. The seller has the capacity to sell them cheaper since they don’t have the additional price of publishing or advertising.
The way the software programs are sold will change within the next 3 months. Apple will have a store which will sell software that’s designed for their lightweight laptops. These will be sold via their stores as well as on the internet much like the apps for the iPhone. They intend to be just as reasonably priced also.
The Macbook Air will develop and shortly have some of the same top features of the iPhone. Multi touch is one of the functions being developed, even though this is going to take time and isn’t going to be available in the near future.
Microsoft is additionally planning to follow suit and introduce an app store; however this also will not be any time soon. Though they plan on offering comparable functionality they do not plan to offer it before the release of the Microsoft operating-system, Windows 8. There isn’t any forecast launch date, or even talk of how far in to development the next Windows operating system is, and so it could be quite a while before Windows users can have such easy access to these useful and fun apps.
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