Comments on: Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing but Not Quite Fast Enough for the ADD Set

By: Why the iPhone Matters | AP Whomsoever

Why the iPhone Matters | AP Whomsoever — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:43:25 +0000

[...] the iPhone 3G and the original version, when he first wrote about its meaning and impact; and Boomtown’s post yesterday about the explosive growth of the App [...]

By: Graeme Thickins

Graeme Thickins — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:13:17 +0000

Great post, Kara. It’s funny, I just used that “ADD” analogy in a blog post comment earlier today! How true. I can’t believe how many people apparently did that – loaded up their iPhone or iPod Touch with the maximum amount of apps (that’s 148, by the way). Pretty insane, since they will obviously not use many of those on any given day, or week?

We’ve received all kinds of great consumer reaction to our apps, telling us how much they love them, via Twitter and directly through our site.

cheers,
Graeme
vp marketing
DoApp Inc.
http://www.doapps.com
http://www.twitter.com/doapp

By: Why the iPhone Matters | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD

Why the iPhone Matters | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:31 +0000

[...] Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing but Not Quite Fast Enough for the ADD Set [...]

By: kontra kontra

kontra kontra — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:52:48 +0000

Some Apple “critics” are mere shorters of AAPL. Others make a profession of it. Fine. But Apple is not creating open source projects where everything goes. The fact that it actually curates the ecosystem is a plus for many of us, as I explored in:

Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products”
http://counternotions.com/2008.....-products/

The iPhone phenomenon is just starting. Think of the many millions of people that’ll be added to the userbase after XMas and addition of 70+ countries. The App Store will only grow both in quantity and quality.

By: Free Iphone 2 U » Blog Archive » Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing But Not Quite Fast Enough for the …

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:58:15 +0000

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By: Phil Baker

Phil Baker — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:10:33 +0000

In response to
“The question is how many apps can one person really manage before becoming overwhelmed. While the initial impulse is to download as many apps as possible to try them out, there is a limit to how many apps you can juggle on your iPhone.”

The answer to the question is easy:
An application to manage your applications. Anyone that’s used a Treo knows that comes next from the developers.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:54:45 +0000

If I follow the reasoning of the naysayers and skeptics, the net out seems to be that mobile computing as a platform won’t be compelling beside web, email and phone, which seems just silly when you consider all of the venues that mobile is at least a companion to what you are doing – work, out and about, home office, living room, etc.

Put another way, one could argue that iPhone 2.0 is akin at this stage to where Windows 3.0 was in setting the stage for the rise of the PC as a mainstream computing device.

If that’s a fair comparison, it should be clear that this is the tip of a really big, compelling iceberg.

The hardware, software, service functions, tools, developer acumen, marketing and consumer awareness — which is already pretty darn good — will only get better.

Here’s a post I wrote assessing the experience to date from a user perspective:

iPhone 2.0 – What it Means to be Mobile
http://thenetworkgarden.com/we.....-what.html

Check it out if interested.

Cheers,

Mark