We could be forgiven if we have long ago lost touch with useful Apps for our iPhone. Hammered almost daily with new apps, it has become easier to ignore than to try! Here, for example (according to virtualpressoffice), are some of the Apps released in the past week alone:
1) 05/14/2009 – 09:01 ET imeem Mobile Now Available on the Apple App Store
2) 05/14/2009 – 09:00 ET Aha Mobile Secures $3 Million in Series A Financing from Venrock
3) 05/14/2009 – 09:00 ET Mobile Advertising Growth Fueled by New Ad Formats on Smartphones
4) 05/14/2009 – 04:15 ET All-In-One Mobile Social Networking Arrives on the iPhone
5) 05/14/2009 – 00:00 ET FreeBit Announces the World’s First “Personal Data Center” Starts Running on Your iPhone®/iPod touch® within 5 Minutes!
6) 05/13/2009 – 14:48 ET Boingo Wireless Comments on SlingPlayer Mobile For iPhone and iPod Touch
7) 05/13/2009 – 13:20 ET WhatTheFont iPhone Application Surpasses 100,000 Downloads in First Three Months
8] 05/13/2009 – 10:56 ET New “Elvis Mobile” iPhone and iPod Touch Application Now Available
9) 05/13/2009 – 10:01 ET Inergize Digital® and DoApp® Introduce Mobile Local News™, an iPhone™ and iPod® touch Application for Local Media Companies
10) 05/13/2009 – 09:00 ET Alarm.com Launches iPhone App for Monitoring and Controlling Home and Business Security Systems
11) 05/13/2009 – 07:58 ET iLike Offers Custom iPhone Apps for Any Artist; Announces Integration with Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, and More
12) 05/12/2009 – 11:16 ET New iPhone Application from Mobile Frontiers Lulls Users to Sleep AND Wakes Them up Gently and Gradually
13) 05/12/2009 – 07:30 ET Stunt Car Racing 99 Tracks Now Available On Apple App Store
14) 05/12/2009 – 07:00 ET New Version of Byki iPhone Apps Extends Unique Language Learning Platform.
The team here at iPhonegizmo have become curious:
Are we alone in feeling snowed under by the sheer volume of Apps – which is made worse by the difficulty of searching for Apps by function??” And are the apps meeting the needs of the iPhone user? Or are they, in fact, being developed by tech heads in the hope that – by some miracle – their App will be tried and then wanted?
To some extent thatthese questions are answered by a recnt survey conducted by iPhonegizmo, that revealed that nearly half those that responded had downloaded over 40 apps!
But the push to develop apps is ferocious and the returns very uncertain. Consider this add currently in Elance:
We’ve just released our first application, and the results have been less than spectacular with our own marketing efforts.
This is followed by a description of their marketing efforts to date – which include (among a variety of described efforts): posting regularly to their 10,000+ twitter followers and a youtube video where they are promoting a $1,000 video contest. And still they have not had success! It’s a tough gig getting apps even tried!
But is the problem that they are not finding out what we want BEFORE they rush off to develop their App?
Well, we thought we would find out – so check out our next post and let us know what you think!