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App Store Almost Reaches 10,000 Apps

SnowLeopard2008 said:
Regardless of "pointless" or not, there is a huge selection of apps from games to password makers and dictionaries. Again, read the last few lines, a bunch of companies will copy Apple, as usual. For example, Dell/Sony/HP copied Apple's AIO concept. *Sigh*
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The AIO isn't Apple's invention. The original Mac 128k was an AIO, but so were many other PC's at the time.(Eventually, other maker's moved on to other footprints; so did Apple, but they kept the AIO design at the same time.)

But I do see what you're saying, Apple brought the AIO back into style.;)
 
Cool!

This can go along with the 100,000 useless, redundant, all but forgotten Widgets that Apple has choking it's servers.

iPhone Apps! The new Widget!



Some let me know when there's an app that lets me create MS Office documents and save them to the iPhone's flash drive, then bluetooth them to a BT enabled printer or another real smartphone.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Cool!

This can go along with the 100,000 useless, redundant, all but forgotten Widgets that Apple has choking it's servers.

iPhone Apps! The new Widget!



Some let me know when there's an app that lets me create MS Office documents and save them to the iPhone's flash drive, then bluetooth them to a BT enabled printer or another real smartphone.
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I totally forgot about widgets. you're right!! Best widget of all time is the Chuck Norris factcheck widget "Chuck Norris doesn't throw up...he throws down!!"

We need a Chuck Norris iphone app. That will restore balance to the force
 
branjosef said:
I totally forgot about widgets. you're right!! Best widget of all time is the Chuck Norris factcheck widget "Chuck Norris doesn't throw up...he throws down!!"

We need a Chuck Norris iphone app. That will restore balance to the force
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So true.
Any developers out there wanna go for it?
I wonder if there's just a website with 5415129729259+ Chuck Norris jokes.
 
It's funny listening to everyone complain ("whine") about the quality of the apps on the iPhone.

Yes most apps are garbage but what did you expect? Most of the complainers would whine if Apple shut out the joe-weekend-developer-of-crapware and scream monopoly. I find it frustrating to search endlessly for that one gem sunk deep in that steaming pile of crap. I suppose one user's garbage is another user's treasure.

This free-for-all is what happens when the floodgates are open and individuals create the crap-for-.99cents and hope they sell a few thousand and then disappear.

If you think this is bad, wait till Android Market is open in full force and it will look like the red-light district in Thailand selling crapware up to the neck.

Honestly people, what did you expect would be out there? You complain when Apple tries doing something about it and you complain when Apple apparently lets anything through. By all means folks, offer some kind of lucid opinion of what should be done.

Perhaps Apple could implement some kind of rating system where if users rate an item as crap, then Apple could remove it providing enough people vote on it? Of course, that would be ripe for abuse from the competition too.
 
sflocal said:
It's funny listening to everyone complain ("whine") about the quality of the apps on the iPhone.

Yes most apps are garbage but what did you expect? Most of the complainers would whine if Apple shut out the joe-weekend-developer-of-crapware and scream monopoly. I find it frustrating to search endlessly for that one gem sunk deep in that steaming pile of crap. I suppose one user's garbage is another user's treasure.

This free-for-all is what happens when the floodgates are open and individuals create the crap-for-.99cents and hope they sell a few thousand and then disappear.

If you think this is bad, wait till Android Market is open in full force and it will look like the red-light district in Thailand selling crapware up to the neck.

Honestly people, what did you expect would be out there? You complain when Apple tries doing something about it and you complain when Apple apparently lets anything through. By all means folks, offer some kind of lucid opinion of what should be done.

Perhaps Apple could implement some kind of rating system where if users rate an item as crap, then Apple could remove it providing enough people vote on it? Of course, that would be ripe for abuse from the competition too.
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It will all go away once we have our Chuck Norris app. I have faith!


"Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing."

"Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life there"
 
sflocal said:
It's funny listening to everyone complain ("whine") about the quality of the apps on the iPhone.

Yes most apps are garbage but what did you expect? Most of the complainers would whine if Apple shut out the joe-weekend-developer-of-crapware and scream monopoly. I find it frustrating to search endlessly for that one gem sunk deep in that steaming pile of crap. I suppose one user's garbage is another user's treasure.

This free-for-all is what happens when the floodgates are open and individuals create the crap-for-.99cents and hope they sell a few thousand and then disappear.

If you think this is bad, wait till Android Market is open in full force and it will look like the red-light district in Thailand selling crapware up to the neck.

Honestly people, what did you expect would be out there? You complain when Apple tries doing something about it and you complain when Apple apparently lets anything through. By all means folks, offer some kind of lucid opinion of what should be done.

Perhaps Apple could implement some kind of rating system where if users rate an item as crap, then Apple could remove it providing enough people vote on it? Of course, that would be ripe for abuse from the competition too.
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The rating thing would work out.
Perhaps that's how they could get rid of a butt load of apps every three to six months.
Or at least lower the price if people are complaining about it.
Can you believe some of those apps that aren't free?
 
iParis said:
JEEZ.
That's a crap load of apps.
And by crap load I mean that the majority of them are crap.
About 20% of them do the same exact thing as another app.
Then another 10% are light versions.
I think that after Apple hits 20,000 they should go out and filter all the pointless ones.
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Why is everyone crying about the "crap apps" Go to iTunes and look at all the crap movies and crap songs on there. Go to Barnes and Noble and look at all the crap books.

It's everywhere. Good stuff and bad stuff. what's the big deal?
 
iParis said:
JEEZ.
That's a crap load of apps.
And by crap load I mean that the majority of them are crap.
About 20% of them do the same exact thing as another app.
Then another 10% are light versions.
I think that after Apple hits 20,000 they should go out and filter all the pointless ones.
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Praise! Keep speaking the truth.

Chicagomac08 said:
Why is everyone crying about the "crap apps" Go to iTunes and look at all the crap movies and crap songs on there. Go to Barnes and Noble and look at all the crap books.

It's everywhere. Good stuff and bad stuff. what's the big deal?
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Apple claims to be the gatekeeper.

In other words, flashlight apps, we've got room for all of you. Tethering apps, Tetris clones, GTFO!
 
Chicagomac08 said:
Why is everyone crying about the "crap apps" Go to iTunes and look at all the crap movies and crap songs on there. Go to Barnes and Noble and look at all the crap books.

It's everywhere. Good stuff and bad stuff. what's the big deal?
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Because those are songs and movies.
Not all of those are pointless and crap.
It's really your opinion.
Apps are a different story. They either suck or they don't.
And often they suck because they do nothing, there are over ten different versions of it, you have to pay for it, the idea of it is just stupid, and a price would be good but it's current price is too high.

rockosmodurnlif said:
Praise! Keep speaking the truth.


Apple claims to be the gatekeeper.

In other words, flashlight apps, we've got room for all of you. Tethering apps, GTFO!
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Thanks for the compliment.

But... even though I may agree without, don't tell people on here GTFO.
He may not have been here as long as you or be as active as you, but you can still get a time out just for something like that.
No matter how much you disagree with the other person I would watch what you say on here, you have no authority over him.
 
The app store clearly needs to have a better structure as well as some sort of sortingsystem based on ratings, much like the one at YouTube comments where you can choose what comments to display based on ratings. It would also be useful to have an option to require acertain amounts of ratings (e.g. 10 ratings)
for it to be displayed.

If this would be implemented and people would start reviewing more this would actually lessen the clutter in the app store and shed more light on the apps that are actually useful.

But the way the app store is now it's almost impossible to find something. I almost never browse the app store, it's just a waste of time. Instead I turn to recommendations on forums, read arn's appshopper site's RSS feeds, podcasts, blogs and other media.
 
So do you guys think Apple intended to release an SDK all along? Because if we go back in time, at one point Apple was adamant that all we would ever need were the apps they gave us, and web applications.

It is really hard for me to believe they didn't plan to do this all along. But like I say, step in the time machine a second and look back at all the outrage when it was discovered that the iPhone wouldn't support 3rd party development. Why would Apple keep it a secret instead of just saying "we're working on it now"? Yeah I know. They're probably secretive about the place they buy the hand lotion from for their bathrooms at HQ.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Cool!

This can go along with the 100,000 useless, redundant, all but forgotten Widgets that Apple has choking it's servers.

iPhone Apps! The new Widget!



Some let me know when there's an app that lets me create MS Office documents and save them to the iPhone's flash drive, then bluetooth them to a BT enabled printer or another real smartphone.
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How else would I know when Christmas is without 15 countdown apps to tell me? Calendars are REALLY hard to read sometimes.
 
I am not impressed until Apple can go through the ones that are literally not worth having. If you let things get too out of control, you turn into YouTube.
 
dwsolberg said:
Not surprisingly, there are already two Chuck jokes applications.
Here's one:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=290568286&mt=8
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Thanks for the link.

Although, it backs up one of my points even more.
I don't want to have to pay for 350 Chuck Norris jokes when those can probably be googled.

Michael CM1 said:
How else would I know when Christmas is without 15 countdown apps to tell me? Calendars are REALLY hard to read sometimes.
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Hahaha. To true.
Same thing with those to-do-list that are over $.99.
Why the hell would you not just use the given default notes app and calendar app.
OH ya, there are also tons of notes apps.
 
Chaszmyr said:
We may, but I think the biggest reason that iPhone apps are so successful isn't because of the interface, but because everyone figures it's incredibly convenient to have a nice app on their phone, since they always have their phone with them anyway.
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True.

The iPhone is plenty big as it is. Wouldn't want to see a larger one.

I was thinking more in terms of a slightly larger touch device.
 
Well at least soon the iPhone will have support for multi-tasking with all of these apps and spaces built in. It is pretty sweet if I do say so myself!
 

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Widgets, Web 2.0 Apps, and iPhone Apps. It is all good.

Windows users have a wider selection of apps but the strange thing is only a small percentage actually are in retail stores now. I remember the selection of Windows games and applications took much more shelf space (more than DVDs).

Since Widgets, Web 2.0 Apps, and iPhone Apps take no shelf space, it makes me wonder if future PC/Mac software will have an App store too. DVD sized titles excluded.
 
branjosef said:
It will all go away once we have our Chuck Norris app. I have faith!


"Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing."

"Chuck Norris has already been to Mars; that's why there are no signs of life there"
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Well, the best one is a REAL one, during Huckabee's campaign for president of the U.S., when he was talking about security and presenting Norris as a supporter:

"Security? I've got two words for ya: Chuck * Norris!!!" :D
 
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