Monday, December 14, 2015

The best apps of 2015 by Apple and Google – BBC

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Image caption Google and Apple agreed only three applications for its list of the best 2015

had to choose the best applications of 2015, Apple and Google could not be reached over different conclusions.

Indeed, at the top of your list Apple placed Persicope, the service to transmit live video developed by Twitter.

While Google chose Colorfy, . an application to color

Philosophically, the elections seem diametrically opposed. Periscope while connecting to the world, Colorfy offers a bit of time alone

But the Differences in the selection is not limited to that: but every one list includes 25 teams, only three applications are both on the list of Apple for iOS devices and Google’s Android

The list of those coincidences. and of the best applications of the year, below.

  • Persicope (Application of the year according to Apple)

According to Twitter, this app that can transmit live video was downloaded over a million times in its first week at the Apple store in March 2015.

Two months later, Persicope and was also available on Google Play, the store offers applications for Android devices.

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Image caption Periscope can transmit live video.

And after four months of its launch the number of users already exceeded 10 million, positioning itself as a tough competition for similar applications as Live and Meerkat.

Periscope, free downloadable allows any user to issue transmit live video images captured by smartphone , which can be seen by other users application.

Different media, including BBC World, has added to its arsenal of tools to better connect with your audience.

  • Colorfy (Application year as Google Play)

Colorfy was the best Qualified list of best applications 2015 Google Play, which promotes itself as “best free application of coloring book for adults in Android” , but is also available for iOS devices.

There are also presented as a “color therapy” and “The Secret antianxiety “, which is also a slogan used by its developers, the company Fun Games For Free .

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Image caption Colorfy brings the tranquility of the act of coloring to smartphones and tablets.

The application, which is free, brings built several drawings fill with colors, which is achieved by sliding your finger on the screen.

But for more designs and colors you need to pay.

The drawings can be shared on social networks like Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Google Plus and Twitter.

finalist in the race for the title of best application in the list of Apple, Robinhood is one of three teams that nothing is also present on the list for Android devices.

Launched in December last for IOS and Android August 2015, its stated intention is democratize the stock market allowing the purchase and sale of shares in US without having to pay for each transaction.

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Image caption Robinhood can buy and sell shares on US stock markets

According to the journal Tech Crunch , in late October 2015 the application already had hundreds of thousands of users (reached 500,000 at 24 September).

The application registered transactions worth more than US $ 1,000 million.

And part of the success also has to do with a simple and practical design, which greatly facilitates the operations in the bag.

The second on the list of Google Play is also one of the few matches to Apple and an application that promises to change the way we buy and give competition to Amazon.

In both systems touted as “a platform for smart shopping that is how to convert the cost integrated into opportunities to save money.”

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Image caption Jet has been described as a kind Costco online.

What in simple terms means that uses strategies such as discounts and adding transfer or minimize shipping costs, to ensure product prices by an average of “5% or 6% cheaper “than the rest of the web, according to its founder, Marc Lore.

Conceived as a” club of online shopping “-the version of Internet stores like Costco or Pricesmart- Jet originally charged an annual fee of US $ 50, but removed in October this year.

The trouble is that the application, and discounts, only work in the US.

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Image caption TV as “Game of Thrones” are part of the success of HBO.

The application service streaming Cable channel HBO is legally available only in the United States.

And so early as April this year the company announced measures to prevent its use abroad, through strategies such as the use of virtual private networks (VPNs).

The successful application, in any case, could be simpler. lets see HBO for a monthly subscription of US $ 14.99

Other Apple

  • Enlight: editor of photography
  • Workflow: Process Automator for iOS devices
  • Instagram: pictures
  • Hopper: predictor of prices of air tickets
  • Darkroom: editor of photography
  • Lark: personal trainer to lose weight
  • The Everything Machine: educational game
  • Pacemaker: music mixes
  • Tandem: Language Learning
  • Timeline: news
  • Vee for Video: video capture and editing
  • Fit Men Cook: healthy recipes
  • Spark: email
  • Refme: Automator quotations and references
  • Wildcard: news
  • Paper: writing and annotations
  • GIPHY CAM: camera GIFs
  • PRY: fiction
  • Reuters TV: video news
  • Zova: exercise
  • Blue Apron: recipes

Other than Google

  • Khan Academy: education
  • Flipagram: presentations with photos, video and music
  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: editor Photography
  • B & H Photo Video Pro Audio: purchase of professional equipment
  • Ginger Keyboard Emoji: Keyboard
  • Language Learning: learning languages ​​
  • Cute: buying beauty items
  • theScore: sports scores
  • WPS Office + PDF: Office document editor
  • Dashlane Password Manager Password Manager
  • HD Backgrounds: Wallpaper
  • Kitchen Stories: recipes
  • Touch Nature: educational game
  • YouTube Kids: Videos Children
  • Showtime: TV channel
  • Peak: educational game
  • rhetoric: pictures
  • Memrise Learn Languages: learning languages ​​
  • Trulia Real Estate & amp; Rentals: real estate
  • Wishbone: Educational jyego
  • We Heart it: pictures and quotes
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