Tech Advancements For iPhone Betting Apps

It's the worst kept secret in history that mobile phones are popular and they're growing in popularity year on year, there will come a point where almost everybody on the planet has a mobile phone in their pocket. Another truth is that the youth of today are more into gambling than ever, at least it seems that way in my hometown. My "9-5" is pub work and all I hear is young lads talking about their weekend bets or their accumulators. Might as well have a few beers, watch the game and have an accumulator on right? So, I hear you ask, betting apps must've made a lot of improvements over the years right? That's what we're here to discuss!

"Back in the day." betting shops would be packed on a weekend before the football, these days they don't see as much traffic.

Well the best place to start is the beginning, before sports betting apps, we had physical, brick and mortar, shops. You'd see queues of people every single weekend rolling into the bookies wanting to put their weekend bets on before the football kicked off or before the big horse races started, smart phones didn't exist and mobile phones did nothing but make calls, what an archaic time to be alive.

As time went on and tech got better, betting shops would gain access to more screens allowing them to show more live events, showing a wider variation of horse races, showing greyhounds, showing motorsports and occasionally they'd also show other sporting events like football or rugby, depending on if they were big games. Eventually you'd get gambling machines in betting shops too, originally beginning with the classic fruit machines, before they evolved over time to the digital machines we know today, machines with casino games like roulette as well as classic slots.

Nowadays betting shops aren't as busy, purely because everybody has access to everything they would find in the bookmakers on their phone, given we all have access to the internet on the go now. As someone who is firmly addicted to my phone, I don't even know if I want to imagine what it would be like to not have access to the internet at all times. Anyway! As I mentioned, most of the features of a betting shop are now accessible through a sports betting app, so let's take a look at some of those key features you can find on easily accessible apps on all platforms.

Some of the many sports betting apps available to download today.

Firstly we'll talk about streaming since there are many sports betting apps nowadays that have access to this feature. I feel like it's something that came about more recently, maybe over the last 5 years or so, but my first experience with it was Bet365, I noticed a little "TV" icon next to some non-major tennis tournament, one that wasn't being televised, turns out if you decided to stake money on the event, I believe it was a minimum of £1, you could watch the event live through the app or website.

Now they have WAY more options for the content they stream, I've seen betting apps showing basketball, American football, I've seen 4th tier Argentinian football (soccer) all the way up to Champions League fixtures, it has seriously come a long way and it seems to be improving. As a feature it is pretty solid, if you wanted to use it just to watch sports you totally could as for £1 per event, you're not really going to find many cheaper options that are above board. But, also, if you're into in play betting it's a great option because the in play betting options will be in line with the feed you're watching. Brilliant!

Next I want to talk about bet building. Many years ago, when I first got into betting, I couldn't do any multi-bet options, I had access to singles and that was about it. There weren't really many options either, it'd be betting on results, goalscorers, exact scores etc and you'd have to place multiple bets if you wanted to bet on multiple lines. Now? Completely different and very streamlined. You can add many lines to a bet, 4 way? 16 line accumulator? It's whatever you want. The options are also massively varied. You can bet on the amount of corners in a half of football, you can bet on the amount of rebounds in a quarter in basketball, it's so much better!

That'll do it for today, I assume you folks use sports betting apps on a regular basis, otherwise why are you here? BUT, which apps do YOU use? Are you a 'loyal' customer and stick with one app, do you like to shop around and find new deals and stuff? We'd love to hear from you! As always, bet responsibly, when the fun stops, stop and take care!