App Center
By a simple message on your official blog, Facebook has unveiled its ambitious new project: an own app store This service already has a name, App Center , and its objective is to collect the best social applications for smartphones, tablets, web browsers and, even for computers All from the Facebook page itself or the official Android applications and iPhone (only confirmed platforms for the moment), forming one of the frameworks of the service of this social network along with the messages, the timelines, theposts, etc.
This new market of applications will collect the best applications both for Android and for iPhone (as far as portable devices are concerned), whether they are paid or free In fact, it is anticipated that App Center be a mere channel to make known and popularize the applications best valued And, when you visit this market from your mobile and want to download an application, the user will be automatically redirected to iTunes orGoogle Play, depending on platform.
Facebook's approach in this project is to create a platform accessible to its more than 900 million of registered users.In addition, it will have quality filters and ratings in order to achieve a market with the best applications For this reason, it has published required minimums for developers, in addition to creating a system of mechanical voting (through artificial intelligence formulas) and another human, through the typical rating starsWith this, it is expected to collect and list the most popular and best created applications of the moment.
But, what does Facebook gain from all this? As we mentioned, there will also be a place for applications payment that are distributed only in the App Center, of whose sales the social network of Mark Zuckerberg will keep 30 percent In addition, it has the feature of being able to offer programs and games to the platforms you want, the way you want, being a great channel with a big audience and raising a Idea too good for developers to pass upWith this, creators can get more downloads and promote their apps easily.
For these developers, Facebook not only proposes a system of monetizationWith App Center you also offer a lot of data and information about the use of these applications: the time they are used , how many install them”¦ To do so, he proposes creating a personal page from which to launch the applications. In addition, it offers individual pages of information for each app, just like iTunes and Google Play , showing images, a description and other information that may be useful for thefinal user.
In the same statement offered by the people of Facebook, developers are encouraged to create their own page in this new market, App Center, to start bringing the service to life, which will be updated with the first applications after day 18 of this same month of May They also offer information on the application payment system We will have to be attentive to this new market, which will be available in the coming weeks through the web page Facebook and official applications for Android and iPhone
