Joe Fedewa / How-To Geek
Millions of apps have been released for the iPhone and Android devices over the years. In the early days of smartphones, there were some apps and games that were particularly popular and important. Let’s check in on some of them.
When the Apple App Store and Android Market (now the Google Play Store) were fresh, not as many apps and games were being released. People weren’t just downloading the latest trendy social media app. They’d find apps that enabled features not yet built-in to the phones, and it was far, far more common for games to become incredibly popular.
It’s fun to remember the first iPhone apps and first Android apps you downloaded. Let’s take a look back at some old favorites and see where they are today.
Barcode Scanner (ZXing)
Released for Android in March 2008, the Barcode Scanner app by ZXing was one of the very first apps for scanning QR codes. It wasn’t possible to do this with the built-in camera yet, which made this one of the original indispensable apps. Nowadays, it still works just fine,…
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