Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users make App Store undeniable hit
Filed under: News | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
For me the best cell phone on the market is the Apple iPhone, and the best media player has to be the iPod Touch. Both have one thing that they have in common that make them what they are is the Apple App Store, which is an undeniable hit as user download these applications at an alarming rate.
On Friday, Apple announced that there have been 300 million downloads from their app store, I am sure my brother makes up half that amount, he always has new apps every time I see him. This is a huge number, considering that the app store only opened just five months ago.
Apple has said that they now have over 10,000 apps in their store, which is 10,000 ways to make your iPhone or iPod Touch better than it was when you unpacked it from the box. Other companies such as Handango have been offering Smartphone users apps for years, but the process is not as slick as Apple’s.
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I agree — the app store has transformed the iPhone from a cool media player that is also an internet enabled PDA to something that goes beyond anything we’ve ever seen before.
I had quite a few apps on my old Palm, but they all basically did things that I could do on a laptop if I had one handy. The iPhone’s spatial awareness both globally (GPS) and locally (tilt), and clever use of the camera and microphone has opened the door for clever creators to produce apps which would otherwise be an entire bespoke device — like an audio spectrum analyser, or a sound level meter, or clinometer, or a trick for measuring the size of very large objects, or a colour sampler that can tell you the Pantone equivalents of the wall paper you just saw.