Apps Essay

MOne normal, ordinary day, Natalia Bennett and four others were on their way home from a party in Austin, Texas a little after 4:00 in the morning. Jacqui Saburido had been sitting in the passenger seat next to Natalia. Reggie Stephey had been on his way home as well, but had been drinking. Reggie, only a mile away from his driveway, hit Natalia’s car head on. Natalia and one other died on the spot. Although Jacqui survived the crash, she suffered third-degree burns on over 60 percent of her…

capable of all sorts of nifty tricks. There were hundreds of apps available to Sarah, from exciting games to new social media networks. Suddenly, Sarah’s phone beeped. It was her boyfriend Jack. “Did you download that app I told you about?” the message read. Sarah had forgotten. She went to her phones online store and searched for the app. “Chat snap” he called it. Unfortunately, the app was five dollars. There was only one way to get the app: Sarah went to her mother’s purse and “borrowed” her…

When the iPhone was introduced back in 2007, it became a successful product in a short amount of time. It offered many features that other competitors did not offer and was just a more appealing cell phone to buy. However, as time progressed, many of the iPhone’s competitors began to offer the same features as the iPhone and some even surpassed the amount offered towards customers. Now in 2015, it is difficult for one to say which exactly is the best smartphone due to the variety of options.…

tell when people are getting in line to checkout. They also have sensors to keep track of the temperature of foods in the store, like produce and met, that need to be checked on regularly. They started using online ordering system, Click List, and an app that people can be download on their phones so shop online instead of shopping in the store. 2. How are they saving cost through technology? One of the reasons Kroger is saving money is because of the infrared sensors. These sensors are…

In Daniel Haybron’s piece “What Technology Can’t Change About Happiness,” he criticizes how people are easily satisfied with themselves and refuse to pursue happiness in their lives just because living “sure beats being dead” (132). Smartphones apps rarely inspire self-reflection and they distract users from their problems instead of encouraging them to change. By observing a typical, mundane day of Sebastian’s life, the reader can easily see that he is essentially a slave to his phone. His…

TuGo App. Goal/Mission: Our goal is to get our clients healthcare needs delivered to them directly. TuGo provides a personal concierge service to help customers find the right physician, and home health services. Also treating our clients with the proper respect. We are driven to meet our client healthcare needs. Our mission is to give our client a state-of-mind, a clear way of thinking, improving concierge health care locally, regionally, and worldwide by using TuGo. Making sure everything…

Background Snapchat is a growing social media platform that can have great potential for Western Rez Life. Geared toward picture and video sharing, Snapchat allows users to share videos and images in real time to their followers and friends. These videos and images cannot be saved or shared; they can only be viewed for up to 10 seconds per video/image. For Western Rez Life, this means we can engage with our students by sending them updates of real time events (i.e. O-Week, etc.), as well as…

platforms accomplish. If you are a person who is active and aware of the different social media platforms, then you should be aware of Snapchat. Snapchat is a very successful social media company as well as smartphone application which all the users of the app can send images and video clips to each…

between several distinct types of affiliated customers (Hagiu and Wright, 2015). According to this definition, App Store as a digital content marketplace has enabled a direct commercial interactions between developers and users as stated in terms of purchase agreement where the liabilities and the purchase is made between the user and a third party (not Apple). Thus, we can say that App Store is a two sided…

to do whatever it is ”cool” to do at the time. Another fact is that humans, as social beings, enjoy connectivity. Instagram is just that. It is a social media app that allows you to see, like, and post pictures while interacting with other users. If there’s an app able to connect people with others like that, why wouldn’t the younger, app-savvy generation want to…