Earthshaking news: weak apps die fast!
Feb 20
Okay, so that’s just my overly-snide first-take on this article about iPhone apps.
My second take is that I can’t decide whether this is a positive commentary on iPhone users (i.e. they know useless crap once they’ve seen it and never look back), or a somewhat less flattering one (they have an endless and apparently purposeless appetite for the latest gimicky digital froth).
I dunno. You guys tell me what you think.
Full disclosure: The device in my pocket was purchased when you still called them “cell phones” and they all had hinges in the middle, so this post might just be my pent-up gadget-envy lashing out at my luddite wallet.
Mar 19 at 16:03
Does the iPhone not have any hinges?!?!
Truthfully, my own opinion is that information & technology overload is pretty easy to achieve, and I think that’s kind of what we’re seeing with the iPhone apps.
If I had to guess, the majority of those apps just end up wasting the very valuable time of the end-user, and they really don’t offer any meaningful payoff.
Building apps is easy… coming up with a meaningful concept is the hard part.