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Smartphone Apps

Can you name these apps for your smart phone?
If more than one answer fits, guess the most well-known
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Last updated: November 14, 2020
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First submittedJanuary 20, 2015
Times taken26,710
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Description
App
Send a picture that is deleted from the recipient's phone almost instantly
Snapchat
The official app for posting a tweet
Twitter
Share a filtered picture with your followers
Instagram
Build a fake farm with real money
Farmville
Hail an unlicensed cab
Uber / Lyft
Stay in an unlicensed hotel
Airbnb
Launch a bird at a pig
Angry Birds
Swipe right to find your next mate
Tinder
Find out the name of the song that is playing
Shazam / SoundHound
Instant messaging app that Facebook bought for 19 billion dollars
WhatsApp
Video chat over the internet with this Microsoft-owned app
Skype
Have a quarantine video chat with multiple friends and family members,
with the Chinese government potentially watching as well
Zoom
The most popular Scrabble-like app
Words with Friends
Record a 6 second looping video (RIP: 2017)
Vine
Post videos of yourself lip-synching to songs such as "Old Town Road",
while sharing your personal data with the Chinese government
TikTok
Obliterate candy every 30 minutes or so unless you pay to do it more frequently
CandyCrush
Explore a world made of cubes
Minecraft
Build an expensive fort to defend against another clan's attack
Clash of Clans
Pay $9.99/month to listen to unlimited music thanks to this Swedish company
Spotify
Send payments to your friends and family which are for some reason
publicly posted for all to see
Venmo
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Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
Consider also accepting SoundHound for the Shazam one.
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Level 71
Mar 23, 2015
Agreed.
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Level 31
Jun 7, 2020
i only got 12 but I got venmo, whatsapp, words with friends, clash of clans, minecraft, zoom, tik tok, spotify,angry birds, snapchat, instagram and twitter
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Level 52
Mar 23, 2015
I would have to agree...
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Level 46
Jun 22, 2015
PLEASE
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Level 59
Aug 3, 2015
Yep soundhound!
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Level 66
Dec 20, 2018
I agree with this as well. SoundHound is and always has been better than Shazam.
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Level 54
Mar 3, 2015
FWIW, Vines are six seconds long.
+9
Level 78
Mar 23, 2015
I don't have any of these apps. I must have a dumbphone.
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Level 75
Mar 24, 2015
I don't own a smartphone but I scored 7.
+7
Level 75
May 17, 2020
I now own a smartphone but very few apps. Mostly the ones the grandkids want to use when they are here visiting.
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Level 59
Mar 23, 2015
I have Uno and an alarm clock on my phone. Woo!
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Level 83
Dec 4, 2015
I have a camera, a world clock and three missing keys. :(
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Level 20
Jul 19, 2018
lmao how can you have missing keys on a smartphone?
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Level 83
Nov 30, 2018
^ The phone I had at that time wasn't a smartphone.
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Level 82
May 9, 2020
I had Nokia N95. Though early, definitely a smartphone with keys
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Level 66
May 9, 2020
@hbking there was a time eons ago, phones didnt have touchscreens. And can you imagine no apps or camera either!

(there is even a rumour that once upon a time phones were stuck to the wall... now that makes absolutely no sense! I am pretty sure that was made up. You would have to go home and stare at the wall to talk to your friends, haha)

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Level 75
May 17, 2020
I barely remember when phones had no dials or buttons. We picked up the receiver and waited for the operator to ask, "Number please?" Then we got a phone with a dial and we could dial the number ourselves - that is, we could when we found the line open which wasn't often because we were on a party line with seven other families and had to share. I still remember our ring was two longs and a short. We heard everyone's ring but only picked up when it was ours. The phone rang all hours. We had a card next to the phone which gave everyone else's ring and if we wanted to phone someone on our line we had to dial their party line number (it would be a single number, 1-8) then we'd hang up and their ring would sound repeatedly. When it stopped we knew they had answered and we picked up the receiver and said hello. If it just kept ringing then they weren't home. We didn't get a private line until the 1970s when I was married with children, but by then we only shared with three families.
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Level 75
May 17, 2020
The trouble with the party line was that anyone who shared the line could pick up their phone and listen in. We could hear when someone picked up and usually knew who the nosy people were on the line. Occasionally someone would break in and ask to have the line if it was an emergency or something important. (Calls were supposed to be limited to three minutes but that rule was seldom followed.) While on the nostalgia train, I also remember that the early phones were always black. When colors became available in the 1970s my mom was really excited to have an avocado green phone. (My grandkids love playing with it.) Also, the phone numbers had words in front of them. Some in my area were Locust 8, Madison 4, Edgewater 5, Granite 1, Avenue 3, etc. The first two letters of the word were dialed as part of the number and later became the present prefixes. For example, Locust 8 became the prefix 568. There were no area codes then, only the 3-number prefixes and 4-digit numbers.
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Level 78
May 31, 2020
Reading your stories feels like being a child sitting by the fireside and listening to grandma with big eyes.
+4
Level 88
May 31, 2020
@ander that was fascinating reading, thanks for sharing.
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2020
Thanks for your kind words. I figured everyone would be rolling their eyes thinking, "That old lady is rambling on again about the 'good ol' days'," but it is amazing to me how far we have come since I was young. I live in a rural area, so it might have been more modern in the cities in the 1950s and '60s.
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Level 57
Mar 23, 2015
Can you even get Farmville on your phone? I thought it was just a Facebook game.
+3
Level 59
Mar 23, 2015
NINETEEN BILLION? Holy hell.
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Level 21
Mar 23, 2015
By the way vine is six seconds, other wise a great quiz
+1
Level ∞
Mar 24, 2015
Fixed
+1
Level 14
Oct 19, 2017
no its seven
+1
Level 70
Mar 23, 2015
this sums up the entire teenage generation!
+2
Level 71
May 9, 2020
I am a lot older than a teenager and have all but five of them on my phone. :)
+1
Level 43
Nov 14, 2018
I wrote angry bird...
+8
Level 62
Aug 31, 2019
It's amazing how quickly this went out of date. No more Vine. Dropbox is no longer the only big cloud service.
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Level 70
May 9, 2020
I wonder how long this new update will last before applications such as Tiktok, Snapchat or Zoom fall out of fashion. Facebook's set to hold out a while later with Instagram and Whatsapp under its wing, I'd imagine, but the market is always changing.
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Level 38
Feb 27, 2020
RIP VINE. Also Google Drive should replace Dropbox I think (2020)
+1
Level ∞
May 9, 2020
Removed Dropbox.
+12
Level 71
May 9, 2020
Do... do people actually still play Farmville? I thought that game died out years ago.
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Level 89
May 31, 2020
I was thinking the same thing. I've honestly never met a single person who actually played FarmVille. I've even seen it on some video game quizzes which baffles me.
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Level 88
May 31, 2020
I've met a fair amount of people who play Farmville, or at least did at one time. I never got into it myself.
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Level 83
May 9, 2020
Interesting how it mentions the Chinese spying on you twice, but the whole Facebook related apps are fine.
+12
Level ∞
May 9, 2020
Where did we ever say that Facebook-related apps are fine? But seriously, if you value your data, don't install any Chinese apps on your phone (or anything from Facebook either for that matter).
+10
Level 78
May 9, 2020
Right on the money. It looks less like paranoia and just like xenophobia and sinophobia.
+12
Level 84
May 14, 2020
No xenophobia in calling out the CCP for its surveillance state practices. Nothing to do with race, everything to do with communism.
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Level 62
May 10, 2020
Maybe Jetpunk gets an app in the next 10 years or so.....
+7
Level ∞
May 10, 2020
Nope, not going to happen. There is no business case for it. Why not just use the mobile website?
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Level 73
May 18, 2020
I do sincerely appreciate that you aren't interested in selling a paid app or freemium app. There is a sense of community here and I think there is value in that.

With that said, if you ever make an app, I would consider downloading it and trying it out. The map/flag type quizzes would be hard on a small screen, and then the keyboard would take up a lot of screen space too. I currently only use the website on my computers.

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Level 53
May 10, 2020
How about considering Hay Day as a possible answer for "Build a fake farm with real money" too? Isn't Hay Day more popular than Farmville? I mean it has twice as many downloads on Android as Farmville at least.
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Level 80
May 10, 2020
Please also accept 'the Russian government' in the question about Zoom and 'the CIA' into the question about Venmo.
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Level 65
May 10, 2020
Accept CashApp for Venmo?
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Level 76
May 10, 2020
I really thought the quarantine chat thing would have been wechat. Didn't even know the one mentioned here existed, and right after finishing the quiz I realized CNN is advertising it. Or is it 'product placement' officially?

Also, where's telegram, signal and other (rumored to be) safer options?

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Level 77
May 11, 2020
I have to say, the snarky, editorialized clues ruin what would otherwise be a good quiz.
+11
Level 86
May 12, 2020
I thought they were funny.
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Level 55
May 11, 2020
Never heard of Venmo, maybe it isn't used much here in Australia. All my friends and family just use PayPal. And to find out what a song is we just ask Google Assistant or Siri :)
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Level 66
Jun 3, 2020
Both the sender and the receiver have to live in the US, so yeah, probably not that common down under.
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Level 89
May 12, 2020
Anyone else thinking Qbert and his land of cubes had made a come back?
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Level 83
May 20, 2020
I love how some of the clues specifically mention being spied upon by the Chinese government.
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Level 67
May 20, 2020
Why not add "spying by the US government" in all other apps? Officially the US government can take data from the big 3 cloud providers anywhere in the world. Does anyone remember a guy called Edward Snowden?
+3
Level 89
May 21, 2020
Nobody else using Wordfeud to play Scrabble? Definitely the most popular in the Netherlands :)
+1
Level 66
May 31, 2020
Yes, in Sweden as well
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Level 75
May 21, 2020
For anyone wondering, you can change the setting in Venmo to make your payments private
+2
Level 74
May 31, 2020
I've only ever used four of these, and of those Spotify is the only one I use regularly. Discord and Reddit I use way too much but alas are not on here.
+1
Level 58
May 31, 2020
i've used 15 of these and i use 6 of them on a daily basis i-
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Level 58
May 31, 2020
i use snapchat, instagram, and tiktok wayyy too much
+1
Level 32
May 31, 2020
So 毛泽东的思绪万岁!
+1
Level 60
May 31, 2020
I refuse to have Minecraft and TikTok in the same quiz. Come on!
+1
Level 49
May 31, 2020
$9.99? Here it's $2.20 :laughs-in-f*ed-up-economy:
+4
Level 51
May 31, 2020
If you're American, you should be a heck of a lot more worried about the US government than China's.
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Level 67
May 31, 2020
We are.
+1
Level 57
May 31, 2020
love the chinese govt references. very very relevant.
+1
Level 28
May 31, 2020
Does the Chinese government actually spy on us??
+3
Level 63
May 31, 2020
Instead of Skype, I thought of Microsoft Teams first. I think now that Teams may be used more, although Skype is probably still more well-known due to its age.
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Level 69
Jun 1, 2020
What? The clue for Zoom is inscrutable to me. I can't seem to find anything that would suggest Zoom is especially susceptible to China, compared to everything on the list. What gives? Racked my brains putting in WeChat, Weixin, Weibo, QQ for nothing.
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Level 69
Jun 1, 2020
Oops, forgot to tick correction/suggestion on last comment.
+1
Level 44
Jun 1, 2020
i forgot zoom and that is what everyone is using during quarantine .
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Level 43
Jun 3, 2020
I'm using the Google Meet.
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Level 56
Jun 1, 2020
I rather share my info with China than with USA tbh.
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Level 46
Sep 16, 2020
I'd rather not share my info at all but ok, to each their own.
+1
Level 18
Oct 30, 2020
you can tell someone from gen z made this lmfao
+1
Level 65
Nov 14, 2020
I really think a quick edit to the Zoom one would be beneficial to those scratching their head guessing Weibo, WeChat, and QQ. Something like "Have a quarantine **VIDEO** chat with multiple friends and family members, with the Chinese government potentially watching as well"
+1
Level ∞
Nov 14, 2020
Okay
+1
Level 78
Nov 4, 2021
it's "oh nooo why are there so many anti-asian hate crimes" one minute then "helpless chinese people suffering under evil totalitarian dictatorship" the next, make up your mind!!!
+1
Level 83
Jun 25, 2023
The fact that people are under a totalitarian dictatorship isn't an excuse to commit hate crimes against them...?
+1
Level 51
Sep 24, 2022
Maybe also accept hayday for the farm question? It almost robbed my wallet lol
+1
Level 41
Dec 12, 2023
dude got beef with venmo (this isnt an insult btw fr fr no cap)