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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and welcome back to Android apps weekly this is episode number 170 so let's get started Google allô limped over the 10 million installations mark earlier this week it's a number to be proud of but we all know that alo has had a cold reception from almost everyone that makes the 10 million mark seen both impressive and just a little bit sad the application has been getting better and we're sure it's only a matter of time before things pick up a little more as it stands these things are marathons and not Sprint's so it's still too early to call this a success or a failure Evernote has updated their privacy policy and everybody's pretty mad about it the policy will give a small number of Evernote employees the ability to view your notes according to the CEO this is so the machine learning features that will be implemented soon can work properly thankfully the company will give users the option to opt out if they want to the change will take place in late January so keep your eyes peeled if you use Evernote ok so get this someone actually went and spent 1 million dollars on a freemium game the guy who did it actually stole the money from a job that he was working he then turned around and blew a million of it on a game called game of war he also spent money on plastic surgery and season tickets to the San Francisco 49ers clearly this is not a man who makes positive life decisions as you can imagine he has since been arrested this also no doubt helped game of Wars bottom line quite a bit google has released their top regular search trends for 2016 as you can imagine it sums up the year pretty well you can find the expected results like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump along with Prince the Olympics David Bowie and Pokemon go at the very top of the list was Powerball which was worth a mind-bending 1 point five six billion dollars back in January apparently everybody wanted to see how that turned out Super Mario run was released on iOS this last week and there are tons of gameplay videos on YouTube right now if you want to see how it looks it's had a fairly polarizing reception so far with some praising the mobile centric gameplay while others wish it adhere to older Mario mechanics in either case you can get it on iTunes right now Nintendo is going to release the game on Android however they have been a little quiet on wind that will happen for right now retro winter sports 1986 is a sports game that is comprised of six other minigames you'll be able to play retro versions of ski jump by Athlon bobsled speed skating curling and slalom the graphics are as you'd expect from a game with the word retro in it you'll be able to play against other people choose between 12 different nations to represent and you'll have access to leaderboards and achievements via google play games it's a cheap game with no in-app purchases events from Facebook is the latest arm of Facebook to be spun off into its own app this one handles all of your events and it allows you to search for other events that you may want to attend you'll also be able to import calendars from your phone to keep track of them as well the interface is a bit clunky but still usable and it's also worth noting that the apps layout isn't all that great either you can try it and it should work for the most part however don't expect the most enjoyable experience just yet Kathy Rayne is a puzzle adventure game with a retro style you'll play as Kathy a go-getter journalist who is investigating the death of her grandfather the journey is wrought with peril and some emotional distress as a player you'll follow a trail of clues that will help lead you to the killer the game features 40 hand-drawn environments 40,000 lines of dialogue and even voice acting it's a nice blend of old and new and there are also no in-app purchases netflix has officially released their application for daydream VR the good news is that it should work with all of their video content the VR experience puts you in a room with a TV with Netflix playing on that TV it actually looks pretty cool the bad news is that the application is suffering from some release bugs including playback errors the UX could probably use a little bit of work as well still it does work most of the time and it's worth a shot if you have daydream shadow bug brush is an action platformer mixed with an infinite runner you'll play as a little silhouetted robot as you cut your way through various enemies and levels it features one finger controls procedurally generated levels and dozens of obstacles for you to overcome you'll also have leaderboards and achievements if you want those it's a freemium game which isn't that great however it's a good little time killer that looks nice and plays well for even more Android apps and games news releases and updates don't forget to check out this week's newsletter which is linked in the video description below as 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