Scrolling through all of the apps on your phone, do you ever wonder how it all began? Despite all the online discussion about when the first mobile app was created, most can agree it was the addictive game, “Snake,” on the Nokia 6110. But the app as we know it was created by Steve Jobs and Apple’s iPhone, impacting almost every area of our lives.
Ironically, mobile apps did not have much actual application at first and the most popular ones were games or novelty apps. (Remember Lightsaber Unleashed?) But then, the prevalence and reliance on social media platforms increased dramatically, with many people using an app to access these networks. Mobile apps became primary channels of communication for many people, establishing this type of technology as a ubiquitous tool in daily life and work – “app” was even voted as word of the year in 2010.