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The App Store: A Place of Great Potential

By Zach Flauaus ⋅ June 23, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

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The iPhone/iPod touch App Store. Talk about a place of so much potential. It could very well be where iPod users go to get in debt, along with the iTunes store. I mean, think about it: A bunch of useful (and useless) applications to go on your iPhone or iPod touch ranging from productivity to games. While most see it as a simple thing, I see it with one major change: Integration with your current Macs.

Iconfactory recently showed of Twitterrific for the iPhone and it’s currently available on the Mac. What if there were the possibility that for $20, you could get both applications ad-free? That would be a hit because you’d essentially get the iPhone app for $5. You could then synchronize the settings on one to be on the other. If you’re on the go and don’t like how your iPhone displays the tweets, change it on the fly and the changes will automatically adapt to your Mac.

Another possibility in my mind would be the marvelous blogging app, MarsEdit. If Red Sweater Software were to release an iPhone application, you could easily write articles on the go. In the car and have a random thought? Just grab your iPhone or iPod touch. If you have connectivity (whether it be GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, or WiFi), you can instantly post to your blog. Perhaps your in a keynote conference and you want to do a live-blog? This could be an excellent way of blogging instead of having to lug around your laptop.

A final idea would be the oh-so-interesting game, Spore. This may very well be planned out, but if you could sync your creatures and worlds between your iPhone and Mac, you could very well have the next Nintendo DS or Tamogachi on your hands. Continuing your virtual evolution with your creature on the go could be very addictive and cause more people to run into streetlights. While it’s not a possibility yet, if the iPhone/iPod touch were able to create an ad-hoc network over WiFi, your characters could roam around to other Spore Mobile users’ worlds and others come into your worlds. The possibility is there, the technology just needs to be put in place.

The App Store is a very cool thing that will definitely be big and something to follow once it’s released. Let’s just hope that developers play their cards right.

Tags: App Store, iPhone, iPod Touch, MarsEdit, Spore, Twitterrific