Top 100 Quotes About Apps
#1. People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.
Marco Arment
#2. The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.
Lisa Gansky
#3. We ran both the courier service and a detective agency from the same office, and had phone apps for both. Basically, we're Uber for parcels and mysteries.
Jay Stringer
#4. Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
Jamie Zawinski
#5. With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed.
Jonathan Zittrain
#6. Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.
Marc Forster
#7. I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
Warren Ellis
#8. Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.
Neil Harbisson
#9. I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
Ira Glass
#10. The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
Brad D. Smith
#11. Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
Marissa Mayer
#12. Stuff like photos and events and groups - we've built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations.
Mark Zuckerberg
#13. I'm interested in helping secure the PC - we need innovation here. It's not just hug your PC, hate the iPhone. In fact I don't even hate the iPhone; I think it's really cool. I just don't want it to be the center of the ecosystem along with the Web 2.0 apps.
Jonathan Zittrain
#14. Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.
Tyra Banks
#15. There's a shift to mobile apps; I'd like to see a more pervasive communications experience, and I think Skype can contribute to that.
Tony Bates
#16. Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
Gabe Newell
#17. I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online.
Chelsea Handler
#18. Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?
John McCain
#19. As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#20. More ubiquitous mobile technologies have led to a significant shift from desktops and laptops to the use of mobile tablets. Australian schools are increasingly using apps as they become available to support education.
Susan Mann
#21. Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.
Sundar Pichai
#22. For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.
Vint Cerf
#23. Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
Nick Denton
#24. You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.
Thomas Middleditch
#25. I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.
Phil Schiller
#26. What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use
Dennis Crowley
#27. Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes ... you could buy things just by typing in your password ... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.
Marco Arment
#28. She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for Escape from a deserted island.
Kimberly Kinrade
#29. Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.
Mitch Kapor
#30. Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
Ariel Garten
#31. Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
Jason Calacanis
#32. People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.
Bill Plympton
#33. Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.
Vint Cerf
#34. The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.
Ryan Holmes
#35. Local transit agencies have developed apps to let you know when the next bus is coming, but there are so many more applications that can be done.
Anthony Foxx
#36. ArcGIS is an integrated Web GIS that is supported by services. These are abstracted in a geoinformation model that's managed by the portal, and then accessible by a number of apps, which are the growing part of this system.
Jack Dangermond
#37. Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.
Marvin Ammori
#39. Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
Satya Nadella
#40. One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.
Jack Dangermond
#41. We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.
Ryan Holmes
#42. I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.
Tom Felton
#43. Being an app developer isn't at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.
Bill Atkinson
#44. Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
Jeff Minter
#45. What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.
Kamala Harris
#46. The only people who don't love apps are pundits who don't understand that apps aren't really in opposition to the open Internet. They're just superior clients to open Internet services.
John Gruber
#47. I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.
Andy Daly
#48. When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).
John Battelle
#49. Facebook allows outsiders to add functionality to the site but reserves the right to change that policy at any time, to charge a fee for applications, or to de-emphasize or eliminate apps that court controversy or that they simply don't like.
Jonathan Zittrain
#50. He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out any possibility that they might engage with a real live person, who would never come with enough apps to satisfy them,
Elizabeth Berg
#51. At BanyanBrain you can get services related to iPhone app development and game development in India. Our focus is to make perfect and very innovative apps and games because we believe in quality and we will help to grow your business.
Ashutosh
#52. VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
Astro Teller
#53. I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?
Evgeny Morozov
#54. However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.
Meg Cabot
#55. Google+ was, to my mind, all about creating a first-party data connection between Google most important services - search, mail, YouTube, Android/Play, and apps.
John Battelle
#56. This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.
Satya Nadella
#57. Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.
Tristan Perich
#58. Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.
Mark Zuckerberg
#59. Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
Penn Jillette
#60. Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.
Dan Ariely
#61. I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.
Gia Coppola
#62. ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.
Jack Dangermond
#63. It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.
Mitch Kapor
#64. I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden.
Jamais Cascio
#65. Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This not only includes equipment and hardware but also software or apps like Sun Seeker and social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter to build community.
Vincent Laforet
#66. The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
Susan Orlean
#67. We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
Mark Zuckerberg
#68. One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.
John Collison
#69. 'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.
Steve James
#70. Mobile has created a totally different dynamic for discovering apps. You're sitting in a bar, and your friend is taking some pictures, and then you ask what app they're using.
Kevin Systrom
#71. To be clear, I'm not opposed to apps; I just want them to be geared to my lifestyle. I don't need a virtual NASCAR racing app, but I'd certainly appreciate one that stopped my husband from plowing into the lawnmower every time he pulls into the garage.
Jen Lancaster
#72. So you have a job, then?' says Ove. Jimmy nods enthusiastically. 'I program iPhone apps.' Ove has no further questions. At
Fredrik Backman
#73. Good Apps are hard to find. If your Appy and you know it, share, review!
David Chiles
#74. I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.
Eric Topol
#75. For decades, the key question has been 'how valuable is the brand?' The key question moving forward is 'how valuable are your apps?'
Jay Baer
#76. If I don't sell any copies of my books/apps or if I sell a million copies, I'm still going to continue making them. I create because I'm passionate about the craft, making money was never the motivation.
Greg Pugh
#77. With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect ... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.
Meghan Trainor
#78. A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.
Thorsten Heins
#79. Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
Dave Morris
#80. Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'
Kevin Systrom
#81. The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
Chetan Bhagat
#82. Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.
Sundar Pichai
#83. What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.
Robert Scoble
#84. I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller
#85. There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.
Jim Balsillie
#86. I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.
Gordon Smith
#87. The thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.
Sam Altman
#88. The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.
Jonathan Zittrain
#89. The iPad's all about proprietary apps that are supposed to be amazing on the bigger screen.
Jen Lancaster
#90. Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.
Fred Wilson
#91. But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.
Debra Messing
#92. Microsoft Office 2016 is now a family of UAP apps. What UI technology does it use? XAML.
Anonymous
#93. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
Nick D'Aloisio
#94. Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.
Harish Rawat
#95. Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.
Connor Franta
#96. Some news organizations made a mistake with the iPad in saying, 'Oh, it's a big iPhone.' The fact is the way people use the tablet versus the iPhone is so completely different which is why our iPhone and iPad apps look nothing alike.
Vivian Schiller
#97. Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.
Matt Mullenweg
#98. All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
Mario Batali
#99. I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg
#100. I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.
Susan Orlean
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