Apple By Ryan Whitwam Mar. 16, 2014 10:58 am
One of the ways Apple made the App Store a success is by creating lists of curated apps to surface interesting content. It was easy for iDevice owners to find cool stuff just poking around in Apple’s walled garden. Although, no one could have predicted a few years ago that selfies would become such a dominant concept that it would warrant a new section of the App Store, but that’s exactly what has happened. You can now go to the “Sharing Selfies” section to find Apple’s favorite apps for snapping an awkward picture of yourself.
The word “selfie” didn’t even exist until the early 2000s when it began appearing on the now desperately uncool photo sharing site Flickr. Of course, people were taking pictures of themselves (very awkwardly) for many years before that. They just didn’t have a cute name for it.
The new selfies section includes apps like Snapchat, Front Flash, and Frontback. There are a dozen in total — surely only a small fraction of the selfie-focused apps available for iDevices. We can only hope Apple employees meticulously tested selfie apps before placing these ones in the new page. Most of the apps in this section are also free, which will make it faster and easier to transfer lice as people smash their heads together to get in the shot.
This is reportedly a temporary section of the App Store, but it’s featured on the front page of the web and iTunes interface. You may laugh at the popularity of selfies, but if it’s good enough for the Curiosity rover on Mars, then who are we to complain?
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The word “selfie” didn’t even exist until the early 2000s when it began appearing on the now desperately uncool photo sharing site Flickr. Of course, people were taking pictures of themselves (very awkwardly) for many years before that. They just didn’t have a cute name for it.
The new selfies section includes apps like Snapchat, Front Flash, and Frontback. There are a dozen in total — surely only a small fraction of the selfie-focused apps available for iDevices. We can only hope Apple employees meticulously tested selfie apps before placing these ones in the new page. Most of the apps in this section are also free, which will make it faster and easier to transfer lice as people smash their heads together to get in the shot.
This is reportedly a temporary section of the App Store, but it’s featured on the front page of the web and iTunes interface. You may laugh at the popularity of selfies, but if it’s good enough for the Curiosity rover on Mars, then who are we to complain?
More...
