An Overview of Mobile Applications: Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify

This report provides an analysis of three popular mobile applications: Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify. The report begins with an introduction to mobile applications, explaining their function and importance. The main body of the report examines each application individually, detailing their respective functions, levels of success and popularity, advantages, and disadvantages. For Facebook, the report discusses its features for sharing content and its use as a business tool, along with its popularity and drawbacks like fake accounts and cyberbullying. Instagram's focus on visual content and brand awareness is highlighted, along with its growing user base and benefits for business, while also addressing its addictive nature and privacy concerns. Spotify is presented as a digital music service, discussing its AI-driven recommendations, personalized playlists, and drawbacks like poor lyrical features. The conclusion summarizes the findings, emphasizing the role of mobile applications in providing accessible information and services. References to relevant academic sources are also included.

APPLIED COMPUTER
PRACTICES COMP26
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Facebook mobile application:......................................................................................................3
Instagram mobile application:.....................................................................................................4
Spotify mobile application:..........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Mobile application mostly refer as the apps are the software that are developed to run
smoothly on mobile phones. It helps in serving the services which are similar to those which are
accessed on PCs. It allows the users to easily access the functionalities and to avail the
information which they required in a real time. Even if the apps are generally of the smaller
software but still they provide the better qualitative services and experiences.
MAIN BODY
Application 1Facebook mobile application:
Functions: It also offers the services to share the images, videos and also business articles. It is
also used as business tool where the marketers can easily post the information about the business
and to respond to the classifies ads. Its functionality also allows to organise an online event
which motivates the guests and allow to monitor who are intending to attend such events.
Success and popularity: It has good engaging features which makes it popular, as it offers the
news feeds, chats, voice and video calls and it also has the wide appeal.
Advantages: Another benefits is it is free of cost so anyone can use it. With this user can easily
develop the community as by inviting the other people so that they can share the same
information. It also offers the messenger utility that can be installed on the mobile platform that
offers the quick access as compared to the other web pages.
Disadvantages: Some people uses it for illegal purpose as they make the fake account and done
some malicious activities. Hackers uses Facebook to send the scams which can retrieve all the
personal and useful information of the user. Cyber bullying is another drawback of Facebook.
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Application 2 Instagram mobile application:
Functions: Initially it was only used for posting purpose but now businesses are approaching
this to create the brand awareness of their products and services and to reach out to the global
audiences. This app can be downloaded free from the general app stores and can be used
efficiently. Its continuous updates in functions makes it more useful and interactive.
Success and popularity: Instagram is the most successful application because it has large and
growing user base, it has continuously growing user base and because of its interactive and
efficient functionalities which makes it more successful. It enables the users to actively engage
with the posts, they can easily likes, comments and tags the posts. It also has one type of the like
button which keeps the users to easily interact with, its easy navigations makes it more popular.
Another reason for its popularity as it is mobile friendly and also offers the better experience as
compared to the other social media applications.
Advantages: This platform offers lots of benefits as with this easily knowledge can be shared,
one can easily speak out to the world and conveys their messages to the large audience. It also
uses for the business purpose, organisations use the popularity of the people to attract the
customer base towards their products and services.
Disadvantages: Instagram is mobile friendly app, it has narrow features on the PC and also user
have to face the unwanted ads. Addictiveness is another drawback, as user gets easily addicted to
its features. Privacy is another concern as anyone can view or access the story and post of other,
some people also uses this benefits for their own purpose which later turns into the crimes.
Businesses depends on this platform to launch and advertise their products and services,
unfortunately Instagram platform do not verify the account which also lead to fake advertising.
Application 3 Spotify mobile application:
Functions: It is the digital music and provides the video services, user can easily access to the
millions of the songs. Its basic functionality is to play the music at free of cost.
Success and popularity: Its success is mainly because of its enhanced sophisticated data
gathering, it also enables to keep launching of new services that associates its users around
specific moods. It is popular because it makes the streaming music extremely incredible. This
platform has the great use of Artificial intelligence and machine learning, that offers the easy

navigation and interface. It offers the flexibility so one can easily use the premium as well as free
plan.
Advantages: It offers the personalised playlist and also offers the great music list which the
users can easily use it. It also recommends the artist all around the world so that user can easily
listen to those music which they paid for.
Disadvantages: Its main drawback is it has poor lyrical features also for the premium plan it is
more expensive. Another drawback is some users have faces the low sound quality. Ads also
pops up. It is also found that this app have faces the complaint of the artists about the unfair artist
compensations.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that mobile application provides the services to the
users so they can easily access the information and to well use it. Above report have illustrated
the discussion over the mobile friendly application, which covers the Instagram, Facebook and
Spotify apps. It also discusses the functions, success, popularity, benefits, and drawbacks of
every platform. It also illustrated the reflection part in brief form.
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