Smartphone Applications A Box of Chocolates

Improving work and life

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get. This famous movie quote is turning out to be a cliché for today’s world. The tech world is evolving with each passing day. We receive technology updates on a daily basis thanks to gadgets like Google Glass, smart watches, and folding OLED screens.

A small handheld device is doing almost everything for you. Moreover, it gives you the freedom to do things on the move. We use Apple’s maps on the iPhone to get directions to the nearest coffee shop, listen to music, watch videos on YouTube and take notes. So let’s have a look at how smartphone applications have changed our lives.

Work

Have you ever caught your employees playing Angry Birds on their smartphones? It is addictive, isn’t it? But let me tell you that the iPhone is not all about Angry Birds and Temple Run. It provides ample work functionalities to solve problems at professional levels. There are literally hundreds of apps if not thousands, for helping business enterprises in working, developing, evaluating, and monitoring business processes.

Consider ittendance, this iPhone app can mark attendance in a very innovative way. Take a snap and tap twice to take your attendance. The attendance sheet will display your photo marked with a digital time stamp. No more double or fake entries. Reports can be generated through a single tap on your iPhone or iPad.

Consider another example, Microsoft OneNote (yeah, you read that right, Microsoft is developing apps). This iPhone app can help you take quick notes on what’s important in your personal and professional life. Add business ideas, pictures, infographics, updates, shopping lists, and much more.

iPhone application development is helping businesses and enterprises to reach top levels of process optimization & system enhancements. For example, iOrder Cloud is a point of sales (POS) solution for businesses. This app can be used over iPads, iPhones and iPods, still it is powerful to handle all POS operations of any small and medium business.

Lifestyle

When it comes to lifestyle, nothing has changed as much as our lifestyle. We do online shopping through smartphones, we listen to music, watch videos and do almost everything. There are thousands of apps in the App store. Research shows that there are 81,804 apps featured in the Lifestyle category on the App Store. You can use the Amazon app for online shopping. Groupon is another necessity of modern day lifestyle for best deals in the town. You can record your own moves while doing the Harlem Shake. You can also use NFL Sunday Ticket to book your tickets for NFL games and you can also use Rage Comics to view comics and memes.

In a single paragraph of a hundred words, I mentioned 5 apps for a better lifestyle. This can give you a fair idea about the richness of each category on the App Store. Lifestyle is the third largest category in terms of number of apps, right after the Games and Education.

Conclusion

Life is not easy, we have to work hard to achieve our goals. It is difficult to maintain a work / life balance, but now we have better technology on our side. People rely on these smart apps more than ever. More than 40 billion apps have been downloaded as of 2013. It is evident that we are comfortable and happy with the role iPhone apps are playing in our lives.