Thread: Less is more: the 200′000 apps myth
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2010-05-16 , 01:28
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Originally Posted by Luz View Post
Thing is for me, a lot of i-phone apps I have seen, are just marketed to sound amazing. my mate has an app that lists real ale pubs on screen, based on gps position, you could do the same on N900 by checking your gps on ovi and then getting the info from the CAMRA website. other ones like work out who owes what on a resteraunt bill, I would use a calculator!!! Most of these apps are style over substance from what I have seen... thats why I went for N900 over i-phone. Just wish we had more made for platform games like angry birds... thats where n900 lacks, but we have emus etc...
Herein lies the main difference between the swath of users out there and most of the users of this forum.

They like having a gadget, they may splurge out for the latest and greatest in handheld technology, but they don't necessarily enjoy spending their whole day tinkering with it. For them, all this is just a means to an end; they value a quick-and-simple tool to quickly get a list of answers for their questions much more than a robust tool that can do so much more (but they may have to spend more time to tinker on).
They have other things to spend their time and effort on.

I'd imagine with an open and uncensored apps market, this kind of apps will only grow in quantity and there's little anyone can do about it.

Well ok, maybe not:

CAMRA usecase: this can be handled by html5's geolocation support in the future. Otherwise, I think it's a fair piece of app to shorten the 3-4 steps you need to do through your browser and Ovi to a 1 click app. Especially when you're real thirsty

Tips calculator: Yeah I gotta agree with you on this. This is just a reflection of our society, especially its poor academic standard.
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