Keeping up with new media mobilities.

1. What’s app?
Keeping up with the ever changing
world of media mobilities.
[Image by Bart Claeys, flickr]
by Shelby Stanley

2. [Image by Mark Chapman, Radar Communication, flickr]
Ever
feel
like
you’re
not with
the
times?

3. Like
EVERYTHING
is
changing…
right before your
eyes?
[Image by daveynin, flickr]

4. We’ve come a
LONG WAY
since the first
handheld phone
in 1979 [Image by mecredis, flickr]

5. Today, there
are more
than 4.6
billion cell
phones in
use
More than 370 times the number in
use in 1990
[source: Wilson Electronics, Inc.]
[Image by ElvertBarnes, flickr]

6. With over 1.9 billion mobile phones sold
in 2009, mobile technologies are
growing more and MORE popular
every year
[Source Sybase Inc]

7. Nowadays, cell
phones do
more than
just make
calls
[Image by Robert Scoble, flickr]

8. How much more you ask?

9. Welcome to the mobile world of apps
[Image by Christiano Betta

10. Application software, also known as an
"app", is computer software designed to
help the user perform singular OR
multiple related specific tasks.
[source Wikipedia, “apps”]

11. There are over 350,000 apps available
to download at the Apple “App store”
[source: www.apple.com]
[Image by aditza121, flickr]

12. There are apps for
music…
[Image by andrewkimmel, flickr]

13. Apps for working out…
[Image by SuperFantastic, flickr]

14. Apps for managing
money
[image by Yodel Anecdotal, flickr]

15. Apps for traveling
[Image by British Airways, flickr]

16. Let’s not forget SOCIAL apps
[Image by ted murphy, flickr]

17. and GAMING apps
[Image by vancouverfilmschool, flickr]

18. All within the comfort
of your favourite
mobile device.
[Image by timparkinson, flickr]

19. In 2008 Google launched Android
and the Android app market
[Image by jyri, flickr]

20. Android now has over 150,000 apps available
to download…instantly
[source: cnet.com]
[Image by Aeoth, flickr]

21. Apps allow mobile access to
THOUSANDS of online
tools for sharing information.
It’s as easy as
a tap!
[Image by Oyvind Solstad, flickr]

22. So what does this ALL mean?
[Image by SMJJP, flickr]

23. New technological mobilities have
transformed the way we
EXPERIENCE
and
CONSUME
information

24. Instantly downloading an app is an
efficient way to participate,
engage, and share with a
consistently changing
media market.

25. Change is GOOD…

26. THAT’S what’s app.