And it launched a strong makeover of its Messenger app that makes it quicker, more modern, and that uses cutesy design to distance it from Facebook's more utilitarian core app.
But then Twitter said Vine's app would merely transition to the more utilitarian Vine Camera app, which rolled out this week.
But then Twitter said Vine's app would merely transition to the more utilitarian Vine Camera app, which rolled out this week.
Burner, the app that lets you create disposable phone numbers you can use for a variety of purposes including online ads, while traveling, for business projects, dating profiles, and more, has been, until now, a fairly utilitarian sort of messaging app.
Although the utilitarian value of this app is minimal, anyone who grew up watching skateboard videos knows that everything looks cooler from a fish-eye perspective.
Islamic apps are both utilitarian (alerting Muslims to prayer times, providing recordings of the Azan or call to prayer, and pointing the direction to Mecca via GPS), Ahmad says, and "the ultimate expression of Muslim religious identity and piety in a 'hip' and 'cool' way.
In other cases, the apps were more utilitarian in nature.
Divvy's app today is lacking polish, with a design that gives it a more utilitarian feel than a social app should have.
The paid app is more utilitarian in design than Nest Egg, but it has many of the same features, like the ability to scan bar codes.
