Instagram Was One Of The Most Important Apps Of The Decade
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Angela Lang/CNET This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. In the last decade, APK apps (and by association, APKX (http://www.articledude.com/) phones) have become an almost essential part of our lives. Since the iOS App Store and Google Play launched in 2008 with what seemed like mostly novelty titles, they've grown to include millions of apps that help us communicate, meet new people, listen to music and kill pigs with birds.
Sure, we still use our phones to make calls sometimes, but apps are so popular there are now apps that tell you how much time you spend using apps on your phone. Also, APK technically, you use an app for actually make the phone calls. As part of CNET's Decade in Review here are our picks for the impactful apps of the 2010s. I crowdsourced this list -- some of the apps on it didn't even exist as the decade began, a few did though -- from every CNET editor and then curated it further from there.
The result is the list below in no particular order. Note that in the case of very similar apps, I combined the most popular ones in that category, game cheats instead of having individual entries. And, sure, there are hundreds of impactful and important apps not on this list. If you feel we didn't include one of your favorite apps, mobile apps put it in the comments and I'll be sure to chime in as well. Instagram What is it? Instagram allows you to share photos and videos. Initial release: 2010 Why it's on the list: Instagram has changed the way we think about photos and, for many of us, altered our eating habits (for a time I couldn't start eating my dinner until I captured its image perfectly).
It's also become an incredibly effective marketing tool over the years and continues to grow, as it has now reached 1 billion users per month. I think the reason it's still popular is because it continues to evolve in meaningful ways. Adding things like Stories and Boomerang over the last few years has kept it feeling fresh and adopting these features is a great way to continue to expand android its user base. While celebrity influencers continue to make us believe they're actual living impossibly extravagant lives in order to sell us products.
and APK many people still behave completely irresponsibly in order to capture that "perfect pic," Instagram is still one of the most simple and entertaining social platforms out there. Angela Lang/CNET Twitter What is it? A social media platform for posting text, pictures and ios videos. Initial release: 2010 Why it's on the list: Thirteen years after its debut, no one would argue that Twitter has completely changed the way the world communicates. From the Arab Spring where protesters used Twitter to not only coordinate, but also voice their message to the world, to world leaders like President Donald Trump, who can now immediately send a message to every connected person on the planet, it's clear that communication will never be the same.
Though Twitter hasn't proven successful at clamping down on hate speech, it's still one of the best and most informative social networks. The Facebook app on an iPhone. Fabian Sommer/dpa/Getty Images Facebook What is it? A social media and networking platform Initial release: 2010 Why it's on the list: Like Twitter, Facebook's debut predated the decade, but it's become the premiere social media platform in the world, with nearly 2.5 billion active users. It let you reconnect with old friends and family members across the world, and you were inundated with memes, cat videos, requests for Farmville and news, both real and not so much.
After the short boom of MySpace, Facebook popularized social media with the mainstream.
