Good were the days with my old Nokia phone, a phone that only allowed calling, messaging and limited browsing with its damn slow browser that came with guarantee of no worry of battery for next 24 hours at least. A friend of mine used to troll around my phone and used to ask “have you ever heard a thing called ‘Apps’? With this phone in your hand chances are very less”. He was right actually i hardly knew about apps as i haven’t needed them on my phone.Also I was lil reluctant to switch from a phone of 3 years.  Later switched to a Smartphone and got to know ABC’s (still trying to know many) of Apps.

It is believed that this phenomenon called apps were literally got push from Apple inc especially on web using applications to prevent people from using Google server in turn minimizing Google’s Control over WWW(This part I’m not bothered about as it’s quite huge to be part of time pass blog).

In recent times Smartphone’s are gaining ground. It has become trend to flaunt a Smartphone, and even cooler to try out various applications and talk/discuss about them. There will always be someone around you to suggest few apps or someone will be asking for advice about new application or apps as we call it to try.

There was a time when an application just meant a form you filled and submitted in a bank, post office or any other office just few hours before the deadline.

Gone are the good old days when an application meant a means of siphoning off money from parents legally. “Mom, I have to submit an application for IIT, AIEEE or All India Pre-Medical Pre-Dental Pre-Engineering, Pre-Ayurvedic cum Pre Unani exam tomorrow, give me Rs 500.”

It’s entirely different now, “Have you tried that app yet?” I was asked.

 “App? What’s that?”

 “So, you don’t know apps? What phone do you use?”

 “I use Nokia.”

“WTF? Still you use a Nokia and haven’t tried a single app? That’s criminal…..if Steve Jobs knew he would have flown down to Bangalore himself to flog you (it was in the year 2009, when I was a trainee doing a project for HDFC banking software).”

“What is an app? And what’s Steve Jobs have to do with my phone?” I remember insisting.

“Well…an app is an app yaar. I can’t explain. Try it yourself.”

That’s when I went about trying Smartphone apps (or applications; however you call them ).

As days passed there are some really weird apps out there and few are really interesting ones which keeps me hooked to my phone till phone reaches the temperature of an instant electric Stove.

As my friend said” Today, literally there are apps for anything like vacuum cleaner washing machine et al”

I have written a blog on app of nearly 500 words yet I don’t know how to define an app literally.

Use it to know what app is………