This move will allow smartphone users with an Android Auto-enabled vehicle to access apps from their car’s infotainment system because stations with jacapps’ v4 mobile apps will see their apps – and logos -featured on in-car infotainment systems alongside other audio apps.
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Did Facebook really break its Android App on goal? If Google were to try to muscle the company out of Android – or if Facebook decided to make the move on its own – the social network may have a chance to grow its stature in the mobile market.
The testing is alleged to be part of a contingency plan should Facebook’s app run into difficulties with the Google Play Store.
“AccuWeather is committed to providing this exciting new technology and usability to all Android app users, supplying the best, most relevant and localized forecasts to people everywhere on Earth, helping them make informed decisions”, said Steven Smith, president of digital media at AccuWeather.
According to commentators, Facebook could offer these companies an alternative to Google Play. Users were monitored to see how they’d react emotionally, and often, they’d blame their browser before shouting at Facebook, or giving up trying to log-in all the time. It changed the tone of the user’s news feed to intentionally highlight the positive or negative content visible on subjects’ news feeds and then attempting to discern whether doing so made their own postings happier or sadder.
But Facebook data scientist and co-author of the study Adam Kramer said: “The reason we did this research is because we care about the emotional impact of Facebook and the people that use our product”.
Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, with more than 1.50 billion monthly active users.
Facebook is no stranger to “Is this in my terms of service?” experiments, like when they performed a psychology experiment on unsuspecting users. The company wasn’t able to reach the threshold.
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