Professor Buchner says he sees three ways in which apps have changed computing. With apps, he says, a user can search for an interesting product and pay for it quickly. Payment is easy and the result is immediate.
Apps are also low cost. Many are free. Others are a few dollars at most.
Marc Buchner adds that an important part of the app revolution is that a lot of people are getting involved in making them.
MARC BUCHNER: “Because these things are so accessible, there are [a] very, very large number of people that are developing apps.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: Being able to carry apps anywhere opens new possibilities for computer programmers. An app can be as simple as a program that turns a mobile phone into a flashlight to light your way at night. Or apps can be more complex. They can use satellite positioning information to tell you where you are. Or they can give you directions to the nearest store where you can buy something you want.
Manuel Perez-Quinones is a computer engineering professor at Virginia Tech University. He says it is easy for designers to understand how people will use their apps because they are designed with a clear task in mind. This clear and immediate usefulness provides motivation for many programmers who make mobile apps.
And there is a technical reason for apps popularity among developers.
MANUEL PEREZ-QUINONES: “The other part is on Apple and Google in the case of Android. They’ve made it really easy to build entry level applications. And a lot of the apps you see on the phones and all these mobile devices are very simple.”
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