Why are we studying existing applications?

Learn from mistakes benefit from good ideas
Identify strengths and weaknesses
To see what works well and what doesn’t work well
Gain different perspectivesImprove on original design
Gives an overview of what people are using and not using
Looking at what’s there and seeing what can be improved
See the technology that people are using
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Overview of applications that are already out there
Showing how they use the latest technology
Looking at the interface provided
To gain an insight into how these programs and their users interact with one another and to what effects their functions have.
To look at what multimedia technologies are used and how they create the application as a whole.
To be able to gain a further understanding into what users need as well as what they want from an application.
To help the decision making process in creating new applications by looking into key factors and information that make existing applications run.
To single out faults in other applications, then update and improve them in our own.