iPhone: Not For Serious Use
April 16, 2009 by Admin
As part of Apple’s celebration of the iTunes App Store nearing one billion downloads, the company has updated iTunes with a listing of the top 20 most downloaded apps — both paid and free.
The list is an interesting look inside the mind of the App Store buyer. For example, of the top 10 paid apps, not a single one is “serious” — there are no business apps here. Seven of the ten are games. Two are toys that turn the iPhone into a virtual instrument (either a guitar or ocarina). The other is a fart app, and the less said about that the better.
On the free side, things look a little better. Social media is important, since Facebook and MySpace Mobile are both on the list. Some of the others useful tools — Flixster’s Movies app, The Weather Channel’s weather app, the Urbanspoon restaurant finder, and Shazam the music identifier. Google Earth and Pandora’s iPhone client are also on the list, as is Backgrounds, an app for finding free iPhone wallpaper. The rest are games or toys like Flashlight or BubbleWrap.
Of course, Apple’s Remote app makes the list as well, which makes sense. After all, Remote makes you wonder why Apple didn’t just include it with the iPhone from the start. The overwhelming success of games on the platform make me wonder — are games so popular because people really just want to play games on the device, or because the iPhone OS’s limitations (no background processes, no copy and paste, extreme sandboxing that prevents apps from sharing data) make real productivity applications nearly impossible on the device.
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