Apple's annual year-end retrospective for apps and games revealed that Instagram made it to the top and be heralded as defenitive 'top iPhone application of 2011' while Tiny Tower is this year's 'Top iPhone Game of 2011'. For iPad, Snapseed held the 'top iPad application for 2011' while Angry Birds HD earned both this year's 'top paid selling and top grossing' tablet app.
Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that allow users apply different effects and filters to captured photos and share it on different social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler, Flickr, Foursquare and Posterous. Its major update included more features like instant tilt shift, four new filters, high resolution photos, optional borders, one click rotation, an updated icon and use of hashtags for user and photo discoverability, The app has already reached an outstanding 14 million+ users who posted about 400 million photos online.
This year's apple game of the year Tiny Tower is a freemium, highly engaging and addictive game. It was released to iTunes on June 22, 2011 and the game was well-received by users and was even featured as game of the week. The goal of game is to upgrade a small building into a skyscraper, brimming with both residential and commercial establishments. The game requires a sense of strategic thinking, cost and time efficiency and a decent amount of commitment which made this game a winsome.Snapseed has some similarities to Instagram that let's you add flavors to your photographs but more features to offer. Snapseed enhances your photos with one tap, tweak photos to perfection with Tune Image or selectively adjust only a part of your photo with revolutionary Control Points. User can also add incredible effects with innovative filters like Drama, Vintage, and Grunge and share photos with friends and family with social network support, or print photos directly in Snapseed.
Other categories in the 'iTunes Rewind 2011' include 'Artist of the year' which was took by Adele with her song 'Rolling in the deep' also as the top-selling song and her '21' as the best selling album.The top-selling movie of 2011 was the Oscar winner 'The Social Network.' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 was also awarded 'Best Blockbuster', while 'Bridesmaids' was named best comedy. Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris' was best indie, and 'Beginners' took best romance.
"Steve Jobs", an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson was this year's best-selling nonfiction title of 2011 while other books that also made it in the market include 'The Tiger's Wife' by Tea Obreht (best novel), 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett (best-selling fiction novel) and 'Boomerang' by Michael Lewis (best nonfiction).
