Google is currently touring with the concept of introducing in app purchases to Google’s cardboard content; this decision arrived despite people having expressed their hatred of in app purchases. A difficult decision, since in app purchases currently account for in excess of 90% of the Play Store’s revenue and Google intends to attract more developers to start paying their attention to Cardboard. Google is currently holding off with this latest concept since they need it to be highly intuitive, as this would be less likely to raise people’s ire.
The above opportunities and potential disasters make Google doubly sensitive since research data made public in the latter part of last week revealed that 77% of users would never again use an app 72 hours after its initial installation. Furthermore the study discovered that the most popular and successful applications with those that required users to re-engage on a regular basis in contrast to the apps that had clearly defined functions. Naturally, Google apps remain excluded from the study since they cannot be uninstalled.
Pander is a free app that is currently an up and coming local delivery service that offers the delivery of food directly to the user’s door. The app starts with the placing of orders by requiring users to complete questions regarding the types of food they prefer, where after it poses recommendations extrapolated from the data users fed it earlier. Pander will over time further refine and improve its personalised food suggestions as users continue placing their orders over a period of time. The app presents users with a quite striking card-based interface design that features an efficient yet colourful artwork. The app makes the ordering of foodstuffs and their checking out fairly straightforward, with the app providing users with information details whether the service is available in their area or not.
VHS Camcorder is available for $2.99, which will by the user an extremely fun to use little app to record videos whose results will transport them back to the early 1990s. It accomplishes this with the addition of filters and scratches to the video feed making the screened version appear to be recorded via an old school type VHS camcorder.