The platform also allows users to discover applications from a number of categories.
Echoing Yong and Vesegna's criticisms, Muchnik adds that the app marketplace is not ideal for users to discover applications.
Facebook has also shifted away from installs to engagement, thereby improving how users can discover applications and perhaps undercutting the need for affiliate linking to get big.
Here's what he said in an email about his new role: "I work on discovering applications for our technology, work on research prototypes, and scientifically guide the team that works on predictive analytics and machine learning".
Universal search allows users to search through email, messages, contacts, music, videos and more on the smartphone, as well as extend searches to the Internet or to discover applications on BlackBerry App World(TM).
We are convinced that the ability to discover applications based on what that your Facebook friends have installed on their device, will spur on a new vibrancy in the mobile developer ecosystem".
And yet, even though we're heading into a world where we'll soon have over a million applications at our fingertips, the methods for discovering applications, downloading them to our devices, and managing them once there, are holdovers from the desktop era.
Jolicloud 1.1 makes this netbook load fast, lets you interact with friends and share and discover applications, enables you to easily access cloud-based services at the speed of light and simply never gets in your way (courtesy of the underlying technology, Chromium and HTML5, and the Facebook integration).
More and more people will discover applications for the technology that will streamline or fully replace an element of skilled labor, and Leonard shows that 3D-printing has a place in the world of carpentry and interior design.
