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Periscope Named Apple's App of the Year in Best of 2015 Charts

MikBe said:
Periscope shouldn't have won anything except a slap upside the head for the idiotic portrait filming.
TURN! YOUR! CAMERA! SIDEWAYS!
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You know they began allowing camera filming in either direction back in early September, right?

archvile said:
It seems the iPad list of best apps/games is different from the iPhone list...has anybody noticed this?
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Not at all surprising. iPad offers a much different way to play with the additional real estate and tough interactions. I've got a ton of games on my iPad that I'd never bother playing on my iPhone and vise-versa.
 
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Apple has published its annual Best of 2015 charts for the App Store, iTunes and iBooks Store, naming live video platform Periscope its App of the Year
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I don't understand. When I go to the Best of 2015 list it shows the App of the Year as The Robot Factory.

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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
You know they began allowing camera filming in either direction back in early September, right?



Not at all surprising. iPad offers a much different way to play with the additional real estate and tough interactions. I've got a ton of games on my iPad that I'd never bother playing on my iPhone and vise-versa.
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No, I was saying that the article should be called "Periscope Named Apple's iPhone App of the Year in Best of 2015 Charts," and then have a separate post for the iPad list, since they are different.
 
Yeah, the iPhone and iPad apps lists are both different. Some that I thought should have been included ended up being in the other. Silly that they have a game that only came out last week in there too :rolleyes:.

They should have categorized it. It's all over the place and they had enough stuff to do so.
 
Worth noting that these are the US App Store picks. Every local editorial team chose their favourites, although there's a lot of overlap of course.

In Australia, like Canada, Enlight took the top spot with Periscope the runner up.
 
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ILikeAllOS said:
Periscope is interesting but I'm not sure I'd call it the best app of 2015, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was the most popular/most downloaded on the App Store so that might have influenced Apple's choice.

I however wouldn't pick it as the best app of 2015 based simply on one factor - it's SO annoying!
I'm always getting notifications from everyone I follow and I have to "mute for 3 hours" constantly since I usually don't feel like watching a Periscope stream at the moment! :p
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Thanks for saving me the trouble of trying this one out. o_O
 
OldSchoolMacGuy said:
You know they began allowing camera filming in either direction back in early September, right?
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And there is only one direction that you should film in. 99.999% of the time it is horizontal. They shouldn't encourage bad habits and bad videography.


Anyways, Instagram is the only app that I have from that list, and I use it about once a year.
 
And in New Zealand there is no App Store Best of 2015 list, awesome.

Logged out of account, changed to Australia just so I could see the list. Now I remember why I switched to Android back in the day, regional ********.
 
rcappo said:
And there is only one direction that you should film in. 99.999% of the time it is horizontal. They shouldn't encourage bad habits and bad videography.


Anyways, Instagram is the only app that I have from that list, and I use it about once a year.
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I hate to break this to you, but most online video is actually consumed in horisontal format these days.
 
rcappo said:
And there is only one direction that you should film in. 99.999% of the time it is horizontal. They shouldn't encourage bad habits and bad videography.


Anyways, Instagram is the only app that I have from that list, and I use it about once a year.
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People need to stop complaining about vertical video. Let people film how they choose. It's far more natural and comfortable to hold the phone vertically and control it than horizontally. You're going to have to continue dealing with it until hardware manufacturers choose to rotate cameras or software developers auto-size and rotate, because people aren't going to start holding their phone unnaturally just to satisfy you.
 
ILikeAllOS said:
Periscope is interesting but I'm not sure I'd call it the best app of 2015, though I wouldn't be surprised if it was the most popular/most downloaded on the App Store so that might have influenced Apple's choice.

I however wouldn't pick it as the best app of 2015 based simply on one factor - it's SO annoying!
I'm always getting notifications from everyone I follow and I have to "mute for 3 hours" constantly since I usually don't feel like watching a Periscope stream at the moment! :p
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You do know that you can turn off notifications individually for the most prolific broadcasters, or all if you want, don't you?
Click on the little bell icon by the broadcasters name and you won't get the notification sound. This way, you can still watch their broadcast at anytime you so desire.
 
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Nice list, I'm going to have to try some of those, including some of those games like the Warhammer game.
 
I think it's hilarious that Periscope is listed as number one when it launched with, and likely still has, a major UI issue. What good is watching a video when all the comments totally consume the video to the point that you can't see anything.

paross said:
Apple Music isn't on this list?

I wonder why...
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Because those lists have always been about developer apps
 
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