So there was already a thread about "Must have apps". Even I made a list on my blog. But this thread seems to be different. The Apps I "actually" use. Interesting.
I guess, apps like
Launcher,
Dialer,
Messaging,
People (contacts) and
Gallery (includes camera app) need not to be mentioned. Since those are by default used by everyone. So what other apps... Hmm..
So, let's see the apps I use through a fictional story (based on real events)...
I can't wake up in the morning unless the
Alarm plays a random song from my list of favourite songs. So that's one. Then I need to watch what time it is when I *finally* wake up.
Clock and weather widget it is. That counts as an app too.
While traveling to office I would listen to my songs on
TTPod and chat with friends on
WhatsApp and
Telegram. I would also surf some forum on
Tapatalk since it's just unavoidable.
Now I am office. I pretend to work for sometime. Then I would need some break and I would goto breakout area where I see one of my colleague have this amazing trailer of a latest movie, "Edge of Tomorrow". I just need to watch this and have it on my phone too. I would use
ShareIt app to transfer the video to my phone in seconds (it uses wireless tethering to do that). I would view the video using
MXPlayer on my phone. Wow the trailer is amazing and I need to make a post about it on my FB Page. So I use
Pages manager to do that. I don't use Twitter or I could have used
Hootsuite to update on multi platforms.
Now its lunch time. And I had forgot to check whether I published that article on my website which I was drafting late night. I would use
WordPress app to make final changes and "publish" the article. I could have also uploaded any media on the web server using
ConnectBot.
I can now view how my recent blog looks like on the browser like
Opera or
Chrome. I can also use Chrome to read articles which arrives via RSS feed like
Flipboard or
Appy Geek which I on the loose after lunch.
Oh dear, its month end! Did my salary came? I would quickyl check it from my bank's app. Be it
ICICI or
Citibank. Even
Canara Bank have an app now. I left for home early since I remembered I had some shopping to do. I referred the list I made using
ColorNote or a task application like
Astrid to remind me of some things I have to do shopping for.
I am on the Metro platform now and want to goto a market very far. An app of
DMRC Metro guides me before I get lost. (Yea, asking from people would have helped too, but I have been taught not to talk to strangers
).
While I am traveling to the market I would play some games on my mobile. Anything like
Asphalt 8 or a quick race of
Subway Surfer could help me avoid the strangers I was talking about earlier. Oh wait.. did I see someone playing this good looking game I haven't seen earlier? Lets just download it through
Play store and get started to break his record.
While shopping I can use my
Barcode application to quickly scan and get to know the exact date of manufacture so that I don't pickup old stuff. (Mom would have loved a portable Barcode scanner when she shops. I can be a barcode scanner for her anytime now.) While I am shopping I would simply compare the prices of the stuff from online.
Flipkart app it is.
Well, its about time now. Time to return home. I don't really know I can afford to catch another metro in the rush hour of evening. Lets just call a cab using an
app I still have to find on Google play (cause I know there is one) and reach to my home keeping an eye on the driver, meter and
Google maps. I don't want him to drive me home using the longest route, do I?
Anyway I reached home. Now which app? Well, at home I would keep my phone in one corner. I won't use any other app now since I don't need them to communicate with my family members. Enough apps for today. Maybe I would need to use more apps like
Dropbox when I need to share some documents with my friend, or
Endomondo, when I need to track how much calorie I burn after a quick jog, or
AndChat to chat on IRC with digit forum members. For now... its the end of the day and I need some rest.
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Great post [MENTION=77264]Vyom[/MENTION] !