Most smartphone and tablet users know the routine: You get a new device and there are dozens of new downloadable applications to help make using the device more fun and even more helpful. There are thousands of apps, from weather to banking to traffic to games to news outlets to social media to television streaming and just about anything else. Within the past decade, an advertising campaign coined the slogan “there’s an app for that” meant to illustrate the ubiquitousness and utility of apps. read more