What's the first app you downloaded? Five years ago, when Apple's App Store launched, it wasn't something we even knew we wanted or needed, but today <span data-shortcode="link" data-link-text="we spend hours each day" data-asset-type="article" data-uuid="4720f93f-83eb-11e3-86d7-14feb5ca9861" data-slug="you-spend-23-days-a-year-on-your-phone-say-new-figures" /> checking out social networks, playing games, listening to music, and perusing information wrapped up in tidy, beautiful packages known as <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/best-ios-apps/" >apps -- short, of course, for applications</a>.
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Apple started it, and Google continued it, and today we can <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20011875-233/winners-of-cnet-100-your-top-10-iphone-apps/" >barely live without these apps</a>. There are hundreds of thousands of them out there, just <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/best-ios-apps/" >waiting to be discovered</a>.

