iPhone Apps
Sifting Through iPhone Apps
A lot of consumers waited before jumping into the iPhone bandwagon that started to roll as soon as the iPhone hit the store shelves in 2007. The hype that attended its release was monumental history for a mobile handset that was the first from a niche computer maker Apple. It was a great gamble as the iPhone was more of a status symbol and a head turner in social events rather than a full featured mobile phone you can find in just about every high end maker’s product line.
Countless Apps Online
These days, there’s no doubt that the iPhone and its more recent incarnation the iPhone 3GS are landmarks in mobile telephony. Not only was its user interface revolutionary, spawning look-alikes and iPhone wanabees from giant mobile phone makers, it is only one mobile phone that has remained unchanged in body style for 3 years now and has accumulated more 3rd party applications than for any other single mobile phone on the planet.
The sites where you can download iPhone apps is not confined to the iPhone App Store which as of June 2009 has more than 50,000 applications. One look at the net results of a Google search for iPhone apps will reveal countless other sites each offering thousands of applications. Sites like the appsafari offers around 4,500 apps alone. You have apps for just about anything, some are good and some are just rubbish. There are now countless sites on the net that review these apps and mare recommendations as well as thrashings.
There’s only so much uniqueness any one can do for handset applications and the chances grow everyday that some new applications will duplicate the functions of previously developed apps.
With the iPhone, it could take a lifetime just classifying the apps under generic groups as there are thousands of apps doing the same things with just different looks and features. For iPhone owners, this is both a blessing and a curse. You could spend your life making the iPhone act like new with new apps everyday, but it could be nightmare sifting through the apps to get find the best that you need.
