After restarting my PC a couple of minutes ago, I noticed something different after logging into facebook --- a notification for another app? nahhh...
After the successful lauch in different counties around the world (US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa) last month, Facebook App Center finally made it to the Philippines.
What Is App Center?
Basically, It's Similar to Apple’s, Google’s and Amazon’s app stores. It's a marketplace where you can download cool applications for your Android and iOS devices.The App Center allow users to browse apps by category, such as Games or Sports, and filter to show apps that are available via the web, mobile or both. Apps are recommended based on collective ratings, personal recommendations, what’s trending and popularity among your friends. Conveniently, if users select an app while browsing in the App Center, they can opt to be reminded to install the app the next time they turn on one of their mobile devices.
What's different?
You can go to Facebook.com/appcenter, and choose apps you want to download on your Android or iOS device. Those apps then show up as notifications in your Facebook mobile app. Click the notification and it will take you to the regular app store on your phone so you can download the app in question. But you still need to go back to the Facebook app to authorize the app you just downloaded.
According to mashable.com, When you access an app on your phone that you synced with the Facebook app, and one of your Facebook friends visits the App Center, it will show your friend which apps you use.
In that sense, it’s more like a recommendation center than a store. For newbie smartphone owners, this might be useful for finding popular apps. There are numerous app review sites, but this would be a place where users can see which apps their friends are using. You can see what apps are popular with Facebook users in general.
So, for the 900 million facebook user around the globe, the app center is set to become the new, central place to find great apps. Question is, will it follow the success of the Apple/ iTunes Store and Google Play?
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