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The hype of 2012: Multiplayer games!

Last year, Wordfeud (online scrabble) was a good example of a good social multiplayer-game, but 2012 becomes the year of the social games on your smart phone. Multiplayer games are games, which you can play online against other players, but only when you have enough time. Multiplayer games are very popular and the market is growing. The power of these games is the combination of gaming and other community aspects like chatting and watching other profiles and scores. Multiplayer games are more attractive for players than single player games, because the game is more extensive and the possibility to form a community. In this blog you will find the best social games and some recommendations:

1. Word on

A Dutch game that is based on Scrabble and Wordfeud, but it is different because you do not put letters on a game board. You start each turn with 7 letters with a certain value. With those letters you have to make a word (with the largest possible value). Some boxes give double or triple letter values. Or when you put a letter on the dark blue boxes, this letter becomes a bonus letter from your competitors, but when your competitor uses both bonus letters in the next word he receive bonus points. When this is not the case he will lose points. All points will count up and the player with the most points wins. Together it is a game to play good, value words but also a tactic game to give your component difficult letters. You can download the game here for free!

Angry Birds!

Attention to all Angry Birds addicts!

After Angry Birds, Angry Birds Season and Angry Birds Rio. There is a new version, namely Angry Birds Space!

Today it is possible to download the game on Iphones, Ipads, Androidphones, macs and pc's. After a long time of updates gameproducer Ovio comes with a new version of the game. Angry Birds Space is a complete new version with 60 levels and 6 new birds. New in the game is that there is no gravity, thus the shooting of birds goes completly different.

Have you already downloaded and played it? What is your experience? Let us know!

Personal information public with many apps

Many apps send personal data without awareness of the user. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) studied 101 popular apps and discovered that 56 of these apps send the unique identification number of the phone to companies. And 47 of these apps share the location of the smart phones with others.

Some apps go even further and sent information about age, gender and other personal details of the user to different companies. A striking result of the research is that iPhone apps seem to send more information than Android apps. It is not exactly clear why.

Draw Something: 20 million downloads in 5 weeks!

A few weeks ago we announced the app: Draw Something. The app developed by OMGPOP’s, a company of Dan Porter, has 10 days after launch 1.2 million downloads and after 5 weeks the game has been downloaded 20million times! To compare, this are more users than popular apps like Foursquare (3-year-old) and Instagram (1.5-year-old) have. Draw Something is one of the fastest growing mobile apps of all time.

Addicted to apps?!

Probably, you are familiar with those people starring at their mobile phone on every given corner and apping (downloading the latest applications)? Or people who are addicted to games or apps and start panicking when they do not have their phone in their hand for five minutes? Or 5 minutes on your mobile phone soon becomes a half hour?

Future of apps II: Smart TV’s

We cannot deny it anymore. Apps are everywhere, even on the latest smart TV’s! Today, on almost every smart TV platform you can install apps. For example, apps to check weather reports, to read the news or watch a movie. Some brands like Philips, Samsung and Sharp present a standard number of local apps on their smart TV platform. These are remarkable developments, but are TV apps the future?

Owner and director August de Vocht of Gemoro Mobile Marketing in Tilburg confirms this. "There will be a great future for apps on television.”

The countdown has begun!

Apple is counting down to the 25 billionth App Store download.

You can follow them here

Temporary Apps

Apps come and go, just like trends there are several reasons for. Examples of apps like these are apps which responds to a popular item or the topicality. For example Unox launched a few weeks ago (when it was possible to skate) the WinterExperience App. With this app they located all the skate locations in the Netherlands. 

What is your favorite App?!

Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, WhatsApp, Nu.nl or Uitzendinggemist ... 

There are a lot of apps. We are interested in what is your favorite App and why? Feel free to share your experiences here!

The future of apps

There are currently more than 20,000 iPhone applications available in the Apple App store. That means the creation of 2000 apps monthly worldwide. These numbers show that applications are indispensable for current mobile devices. Some even think that mobile applications will mean the end of the internet as we know it today. But is that true?

What makes an app successful?

The way to a successful app

A half year ago everybody in the Netherlands started playing Wordfeud (a mobile version of the board game Scrabble) and when someone has bought a smart phone he or she immediately start downloading popular apps like Whatsapp, Angry Birds, Nu.nl. But what makes these apps successful?

iOS vs. Android

According to a new investigation of the Crittercism, Apple's mobile operating system iOS crashes more often than Android. The investigation showed that most apps crashed under iOS 5.0.1 (Apple), followed by iOS 4.2.1 (Android).The research divided the apps into three quartiles. The 'best', most stable, apps are in the first quartile. For those applications crashed 0.51 percent of iOS apps at startup. When Android was only 0.15 percent. In the second and third quartile Apple's system crashed under 1.47 and 3.66 percent, while in Android apps 0.73 and 2.97 percent. The study was conducted in December 2011, when iOS 5.0. was a few weeks offline. The fact that most of the apps among those update crashed, was there to be due, Apple said. 

The App Store

The App Store is an online software store where software can be purchased. The software, also known as apps, includes programs for smartphones and other devices like tablets, car radios and media players. In the App Store you can find apps for free, but also paid. They can be very useful, but also foolish.

Worldwide, there are four major suppliers of Apps. The App Store of Apple with more than 500,000 applications, the largest online software store. Second is the Android Market of Google Android with approximately 350,000 applications. Other well-known online software stores are BlackBerry App World, about 50,000 apps and the Ovi Store by Nokia, about 50,000 apps.

HI!

Welcome to Clear App

We are Yvet Meulensteen and Rein van Strien. Because of our lecture Business Intelligence Technology and our interest in mobile applications we started this blog. The App store is growing and growing and there appear more apps for almost everything you can imagine. The question is which app is the best to use? On this blog we will post about different apps from Apple and Android. What is the best one, but also the worst. Finally, we hope to find out what makes an app succesfull.

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