Facebook top app of 2015

Facebook hs continued to hold on to its leadership position as the top app installed on US smartphones on the basis of the average number of unique users, according to a new report this week from Nielsen.

Its mobile messaging application was the fastest-growing app of 2015. Having anticipated the shift from more public social networking to private communications, Facebook forced users to install Messenger in spring 2014 by ripping out chat from its main app.

In the months since, the app had surged to the top of the App Store's charts.

In 2015, Messenger grew more than any other app, according to the new report, with a 31 per cent increase in users from 2014.

That growth was slower than what Messenger saw in 2014, when it rose 242 per cent over the year prior thanks to Facebook's huge push.

The question now was whether or not Facebook could do the same for its next most-promising creation, the private photo-sharing app Moments which was now replacing photo-syncing on Facebook's social network.

A close contender for the fastest-growing app was Apple Music, with a 26 per cent year-over-year climb.

Meanwhile, according to commentators, this year had conclusively proved that apps made our phones or rather hardware was as good as the software that ran on it.

They say the idea would likely be enhanced as we get ready to welcome apps which would make use of technological advances such as 3D touch, while others would 'enhance' capabilities of non-conventional devices such as televisions.

According the projections of Business Standard,  2016 would turn out to be great for those into gaming. With popular gaming franchises set to announce games for mobile platforms, one could finally move away from endless running games and graduate to RPGs and adventure games. This would, however, require upgradation of phones to run the games seamlessly.

According to the report, with 2015 seeing the roll out of Windows 10 next year,  Microsoft would be adding more capabilities to the operating system (OS), especially after putting Continuum in action via the Display Dock and the Lumia 950.

Further, Apple was sure to add some more magic to its OS X 10.12 (code named Fuji), especially in terms of user interface.

With the growing popularity of various flavours of Linux and the game-centric SteamOS, it would be back to the nineties (and multiple OSes) all over again.