Not exact matches
Sports Stadium looks and sounds a lot like an
app, but one that functions inside of the social networking platform instead of being a
standalone (although you can definitely
see how it could become a
standalone app if Facebook wanted to do that).
The
standalone application has now become integrated into Twitter's own
app, and in its first year, Periscope
saw over 200 million broadcasts created, with over 110 years of live video watched daily.
TECH CRUNCH - Sep 19 - Hinge is introducing a new,
standalone app called Hinge Matchmaker that will allow people to
see which of their friends are on Hinge, and then make recommendations by suggesting potential matches.
Hinge Matchmaker is a fresh
standalone app from the dating
app where you, a non-Hinge user, can
see all your Facebook friends who are presently on Hinge, and suggest two of them who you think would be a good duo.
It remains to be
seen when the first «killer»
app is launched, either as a reader or a
standalone publication.
There will always be a market for companies like Zinio and Newspaper Direct that offer many subscriptions within a singular
app, but you will
see dedicated
standalone apps die off.
Instead, they might be holding out for
standalone VR headsets, but even then, Gold
sees an issue with the number of VR - friendly
apps.
After all, Messenger and WhatsApp both support it, so it makes sense to
see the company add them to the Instagram Direct
standalone chat
app.
Over 500 million people have now downloaded the
standalone Facebook Messenger
app since it was first made available in 2011, and it's likely that it has
seen a surge in users since Facebook removed the messenging features from its main
app several months ago.
The journey since Messenger became a
standalone app in 2014 has
seen Facebook add loads of highly innovative features including the popular chatbots — a computer program designed by the company to provoke intelligent conversation.
And of course, since both will be running Android Wear 2.0, we'll get our first look at Google Assistant integration on a wearable, as well as
see Google Play Store access on the wrist and
standalone smartwatch
apps.
To run through them quickly, Google Assistant won't appear until the new Nexuses arrive with Allo on board (we're not even sure we'll
see Allo released as a
standalone app before then).
«You're going to
see it in
apps in different types, you're going to
see this in
standalone experiences, you're going to
see it embedded.
Google also announced
standalone Android Wear
apps at I / O this year, so we'd expected to
see some LTE and GPS capabilities in watches at some point this year.
Microsoft Photos being renamed to Story Remix isn't a surprise to
see as the company said in the past that they will have a
standalone app for the new Story Remix experience in Windows 10, but it was only integrated inside the Microsoft Photos
app.
Google Lens isn't a
standalone app, it's built into the Google Photos experience, although it'd be great to
see it become a
standalone app — maybe Apple should have a similar competitor in place soon.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised to
see developers create
standalone Animoji
apps that work on more iOS devices, not just the iPhone X, like this one.
We aren't sure if Google Fit will end up becoming a
standalone app from Google, but
seeing as that it pulls in data from a variety of different
apps and services, we're thinking that's not the case.
MIUI 9 also
sees the launch of the Mi Calculator, Mi Explorer, and Mi Drop
standalone apps on the Google Play Store.
The same features can be found on some
standalone third - party Android
apps, but it's nice to
see LG providing the options out of the box without the need to start installing more
apps immediately.
Lifesum's
app for Android Wear will be a
standalone one allowing the user to track calories and water all through the day using the widget
seen on the watchface.
According to a story on The Verge, these two new flagship watches will be the first to run Android Wear 2.0, which introduces features such as Google's Assistant (as
seen on the Google Home speaker and Pixel smartphones), Android Pay, and
standalone apps.