I've done that, unfortunately haven't found a user rated site or a non-bias or non-compensated site to be able to just find the best apps.
Perhaps you can recommend such a site?
I would really like to find just the best useful apps the App Store offers, not porn, games, fart apps and the like.
thanks, sorry to be a bother....
You will need to specify what do you want to use the app for. For example, you don't go to Best Buy and say I want to buy the best software because I just want to buy a software! Best software for what?
Are you looking for document editing app? a VOIP app? Weather? Printing? Photo editing?... etc
Most people get disappointed with mobile apps because they feel that the low price point for such apps is low ($0.99 to $4.99 for most apps) and don't feel justified to spend time researching. I agree there are many junk iPhone apps, like there are many junk desktop apps, but that doesn't mean the App Store is useless or junk.
It is if you have to jailbreak them to run apps Apple doesn't approve or want, then get locked out of the App Store or future OS updates.
This won't happen. Desktop OS and Mobile OS are two different OS with different needs and functions. The way I see it, Apple is focusing on performance on the Mac OS and they need to keep doing that for a while.
What flavor is your kool-aid this morning? I never said they're weren't any useful apps , that's only what you inferred.
No, Im inferring that you didn't look hard enough or were not inclined to as that would not meet your need to be a constant complete pri** in every thread.
You will need to specify what do you want to use the app for. For example, you don't go to Best Buy and say I want to buy the best software because I just want to buy a software! Best software for what?
Are you looking for document editing app? a VOIP app? Weather? Printing? Photo editing?... etc
I just want to find the best useful apps everyone approves of and then decide from there which ones I find useful for my particular needs.
Obviously there are so many apps out there, doing different things I'm not aware of, that I might find useful if I knew about them.
I cant' find these apps out, because they are buried along with 100,000 other apps.
I'm trying to justify buying a iPod Touch, but I need to know how many quality useful apps that I can actually use. So I need to weed out all the lame, duplicates, fart apps, games etc to get the cream of the crop, then to choose which apps I need if I'm short on space. If there is enough apps then, I will buy a iPod Touch and download all those good apps.
Think of it like buying a iPod Classic with all the hit songs and bands of Classic Rock already installed.
I don't want to go through what I had to go through with iTunes and 12,000 songs, picking and choosing. It takes too long and costs too much.
I've done that, unfortunately haven't found a user rated site or a non-bias or non-compensated site to be able to just find the best apps.
Perhaps you can recommend such a site?
I would really like to find just the best useful apps the App Store offers, not porn, games, fart apps and the like.
thanks, sorry to be a bother....
Depends on what you are looking for. Gizmodo and MacWorld have an article of the best apps each week. I come across many tech sites and blogs that detail a group of app or a specific app. I read about it and decide if it's what I want.
There is no method for going through such a large store so you'll have to just choose sites, or google and post on forums if you want something very specific. If you have an idea patent it because it will be worth millions.
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It is if you have to jailbreak them to run apps Apple doesn't approve or want, then get locked out of the App Store or future OS updates.
That has never happened. Only a couple people cracking apps have been suspended from the App Store, not people who have merely jailbroken their phones or even used cracked apps. That are going after the "drug cartels" not the "drug users".
I just want to find the best useful apps everyone approves of and then decide from there which ones I find useful for my particular needs.
Obviously there are so many apps out there, doing different things I'm not aware of, that I might find useful if I knew about them.
I cant' find these apps out, because they are buried along with 100,000 other apps.
I'm trying to justify buying a iPod Touch, but I need to know how many quality useful apps that I can actually use. So I need to weed out all the lame, duplicates, fart apps, games etc to get the cream of the crop, then to choose which apps I need if I'm short on space. If there is enough apps then, I will buy a iPod Touch and download all those good apps.
Think of it like buying a iPod Classic with all the hit songs and bands of Classic Rock already installed.
I don't want to go through what I had to go through with iTunes and 12,000 songs, picking and choosing. It takes too long and costs too much.
Am I making any sense now?
Again, you need to be looking for something you want. For example, last year I wanted to lose weight so I did my research and downloaded an app, which did everything I wanted and more. Few weeks later that app showed up in an iPhone TV ad.
Apps are not like music. With apps you can't go to the top 10 list and buy one of them because they are on the top 10 list. For example, non of todays paid top 10 apps really interest me because non of them meets my needs. Another example, I am an engineer and all my favorite engineering apps never make it to the top lists because those apps are not main stream apps.
I can give you an iPod Touch with the my personal best apps. However, are you going to use those apps? are you going to use the best app that read CAD files? what about the best app that remotely monitor your server stats? Those are all apps that I need on daily basis but might not interest you at all.
You will need to find them yourself. No one can help you unless you tell us what you do and what are your hobbies and interests.
I just want to find the best useful apps everyone approves of and then decide from there which ones I find useful for my particular needs.
Obviously there are so many apps out there, doing different things I'm not aware of, that I might find useful if I knew about them.
I cant' find these apps out, because they are buried along with 100,000 other apps.
I'm trying to justify buying a iPod Touch, but I need to know how many quality useful apps that I can actually use. So I need to weed out all the lame, duplicates, fart apps, games etc to get the cream of the crop, then to choose which apps I need if I'm short on space. If there is enough apps then, I will buy a iPod Touch and download all those good apps.
Think of it like buying a iPod Classic with all the hit songs and bands of Classic Rock already installed.
I don't want to go through what I had to go through with iTunes and 12,000 songs, picking and choosing. It takes too long and costs too much.
Am I making any sense now?
Seriously the list you want would be way too long. If only 1% of apps were "useful", the list of apps would still be over 1000. Good luck going through a list like that. Everyone has different needs and this have different app preferences. You don't buy an iPod touch for the apps anyway. You buy it for the ecosystem and the overall experience. You get a music and video player first and foremost. You get web browsing and email second. If you use the Mail app on a mac your email on the iPod will be set up automatically. Thirdly you get apps that can fill almost any niche you can think of.
Personally I like RunKeeper (but that uses GPS, so touch users would have to use something like Nike+) for running, Beejive (meebo is a good free alternative) for instant messaging (7 day login and push notification ftw), Movies to see what's playing, read reviews, watch trailers and even purchase tickets, HockeyGPS to find out where the arena that I'm playing my hockey game is at, SnowReports for... snow reports at my favorite mountains, Alarm Clock to turn my iPhone into a night stand, Scoremobile for sports scores, SkySmash is a pretty fun arcade style scrolling airplane game, Air Mouse is great, Appbox pro is a good bundle of utility apps. I could go on, but it's really pointless. One of my favorite features is being able to save safari bookmarks as icons with your apps. The iPhone/iPod touch is about convergence and ease of use. There are a lot of apps that just replicate functions of websites, but are much more useful because of how quickly you can get the information you are after.
You simply can't quantify the experience of using an iPhone or iPod touch, if you are having trouble qualifying your purchase, try using one.
I can give you an iPod Touch with the my personal best apps. However, are you going to use those apps? are you going to use the best app that read CAD files? what about the best app that remotely monitor your server stats? Those are all apps that I need on daily basis but might not interest you at all.
You will need to find them yourself. No one can help you unless you tell us what you do and what are your hobbies and interests.
(sigh) I deal with this type of query all the time. "Which apps should I download?" with no indication of interests.
I'm sorry to say that the people who ask these sort of questions usually have other much larger issues in communicating their thoughts to others.
If they were clear-headed enough to say, "I like sports news, particular English Premier League" or "I love astronomy" or "I like card games" or "I like kittens", they would either ask really pointed questions, or they wouldn't be asking the question at all, since they would have done their homework via Internet searches, etc.
Sadly, these technology rumor sites seem to be a magnet for dazed and confused fumblers.
I have a iPod Classic for music, as my library is quite large and unable to fit on a iPod Touch.
I want the iPod Touch to load up on useful apps, to use it like a portable tool.
Obviously my needs are different than others, that's why I'm trying to find just the best and most useful most everyone else has have found useful in each category and then going on from there.
Wading through the App Store is a chore and there isn't enough reviews.
For instance I just tried Education and Most Popular, I get 545 pages with only 20 apps per page (10,900 apps)
10 pages in, 200 apps later, it takes (on broadband cable) 15 seconds to load each page of 20 apps, then another 15 seconds each to review the two apps I was possibly interested in, only to find out there is incomplete reviews or none at all, then it takes another 15 seconds to go back.
So for 200 apps, it took (15*10) + (2*15) + (2*15) or 210 seconds.
Now to apply that to the entire Education section of the App Store will take me about 3.2 HOURS! to review 10,900 apps. And that's just one section I'm interested in.
I'm sorry, the App Store system is broken as a means to review/provide review for the great quantity of apps available.
That's why I'm asking if there is a faster way, a web site review or something.
NEWS FLASH:
Steve Jobs: "Paying dividend or doing buyback would not change stock price
Apple has to "think big" to move the needle
See's opportunities internationally
Large cash balance gives company flexibility and security"
I really don't understand all the comments regarding the app store containing mostly fart apps and the like... I have over 100+ apps (over 50% games) and I can say that the majority of the apps in the store are useful and it all depends on the needs of the user.
When I have the need to perform a certain function (like using my phone as a windows media center remote) I look for an app that does that.
The key is to look for an app to meet a specific need. When I do that I find that the majority of the apps are great and go beyond my original requirements. It's rare that I don't have more than 3+ outstanding apps (that go beyond my original requirements) competing for my money.
I think this competition is what drives the price down.
Steve Jobs: "Paying dividend or doing buyback would not change stock price
Apple has to "think big" to move the needle
See's opportunities internationally
Large cash balance gives company flexibility and security"
- per CNBC
Again, you are not following NasserAE's suggestion to specify *what* interests you have and to use the iTunes search engine (or a website search engine like Google) more judiciously.
Use search terms like "blackjack", "astronomy", or type in "iphone app review" into Google. Remember that the Top Apps is a consensus viewpoint, a popularity contest (which is not necessarily an indication of a given app's usefulness to a particular individual).
You would get more pointed and helpful responses if you listed *your* interests. I could tell you that Bloomberg is a great stock quote/news apps, but if you don't care for that sort of thing, I've wasted time for both of us (me typing, you reading).
P.S., yes, Apple is having their annual shareholders meeting today.
I've done that, unfortunately haven't found a user rated site or a non-bias or non-compensated site to be able to just find the best apps.
Perhaps you can recommend such a site?
I would really like to find just the best useful apps the App Store offers, not porn, games, fart apps and the like.
thanks, sorry to be a bother....
To find the best most useful apps without reading the accompanying schpiel is a tough call. I have a VERY useful app to record my mileage. The only problem is that I always forget so while the app is useful I remain useless. The most useful app for me, however must be the Navigon turn by turn GPS. But I have three screens of what I consider very useful apps (the rest are my kid's games). Perhaps the most useful app for someone like you is 'appfinder'. Unfortunately you have to read to find out what its about.
The Droid is now for sale on Verizon for $49 with contract while the Eris is now free of charge with contract. I think you can add men to that list, too.
The Droid is now for sale on Verizon for $49 with contract while the Eris is now free of charge with contract. I think you can add men to that list, too.
I wonder if the same trolls will bash Verizon or Motorola for slashing the price like they keep bashing Apple for lowering the first iPhone price. At least Apple gave store credit to those who paid the original price
The key is to look for an app to meet a specific need.
The iPod Touch doesn't have a always available internet connection, so I can't always just look up something when the need arrives, like one can with a iPhone. The iPod Touch has to be preloaded with useful apps ahead of time. (I already have a iPod Classic filled with music, so the Touch will be a tool basically.)
I like to be able to review the best of apps to anticipate their use later, like one would have dictionary around to look up definitions. However the App Store is much too slow and the reviews insufficient.
I would also like to be exposed to new apps that others find extremely useful and determine if I can anticipate a need for some of those apps myself.
Right now the only option I see is a painstaking process of reviewing every app on the App Store, no simpler or faster process exists.
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I've done that, unfortunately haven't found a user rated site or a non-bias or non-compensated site to be able to just find the best apps.
Perhaps you can recommend such a site?
I would really like to find just the best useful apps the App Store offers, not porn, games, fart apps and the like.
thanks, sorry to be a bother....
You will need to specify what do you want to use the app for. For example, you don't go to Best Buy and say I want to buy the best software because I just want to buy a software! Best software for what?
Are you looking for document editing app? a VOIP app? Weather? Printing? Photo editing?... etc
Most people get disappointed with mobile apps because they feel that the low price point for such apps is low ($0.99 to $4.99 for most apps) and don't feel justified to spend time researching. I agree there are many junk iPhone apps, like there are many junk desktop apps, but that doesn't mean the App Store is useless or junk.
However, if you mean that "future touch screen Macs" will gain multitouch capabilities then I don't know how this can be bad.
It is if you have to jailbreak them to run apps Apple doesn't approve or want, then get locked out of the App Store or future OS updates.
It is if you have to jailbreak them to run apps Apple doesn't approve or want, then get locked out of the App Store or future OS updates.
This won't happen. Desktop OS and Mobile OS are two different OS with different needs and functions. The way I see it, Apple is focusing on performance on the Mac OS and they need to keep doing that for a while.
What flavor is your kool-aid this morning? I never said they're weren't any useful apps , that's only what you inferred.
No, Im inferring that you didn't look hard enough or were not inclined to as that would not meet your need to be a constant complete pri** in every thread.
You will need to specify what do you want to use the app for. For example, you don't go to Best Buy and say I want to buy the best software because I just want to buy a software! Best software for what?
Are you looking for document editing app? a VOIP app? Weather? Printing? Photo editing?... etc
I just want to find the best useful apps everyone approves of and then decide from there which ones I find useful for my particular needs.
Obviously there are so many apps out there, doing different things I'm not aware of, that I might find useful if I knew about them.
I cant' find these apps out, because they are buried along with 100,000 other apps.
I'm trying to justify buying a iPod Touch, but I need to know how many quality useful apps that I can actually use. So I need to weed out all the lame, duplicates, fart apps, games etc to get the cream of the crop, then to choose which apps I need if I'm short on space. If there is enough apps then, I will buy a iPod Touch and download all those good apps.
Think of it like buying a iPod Classic with all the hit songs and bands of Classic Rock already installed.
I don't want to go through what I had to go through with iTunes and 12,000 songs, picking and choosing. It takes too long and costs too much.
Am I making any sense now?
I've done that, unfortunately haven't found a user rated site or a non-bias or non-compensated site to be able to just find the best apps.
Perhaps you can recommend such a site?
I would really like to find just the best useful apps the App Store offers, not porn, games, fart apps and the like.
thanks, sorry to be a bother....
Depends on what you are looking for. Gizmodo and MacWorld have an article of the best apps each week. I come across many tech sites and blogs that detail a group of app or a specific app. I read about it and decide if it's what I want.
There is no method for going through such a large store so you'll have to just choose sites, or google and post on forums if you want something very specific. If you have an idea patent it because it will be worth millions.
It is if you have to jailbreak them to run apps Apple doesn't approve or want, then get locked out of the App Store or future OS updates.
That has never happened. Only a couple people cracking apps have been suspended from the App Store, not people who have merely jailbroken their phones or even used cracked apps. That are going after the "drug cartels" not the "drug users".
Why not trying googling for the best apps. There are countless sites that list, test and rank apps base on the site's focus..
They must not be very good or else he would have quoted from them verbatim or provided us with link upon link. He's so predictable.
I just want to find the best useful apps everyone approves of and then decide from there which ones I find useful for my particular needs.
Obviously there are so many apps out there, doing different things I'm not aware of, that I might find useful if I knew about them.
I cant' find these apps out, because they are buried along with 100,000 other apps.
I'm trying to justify buying a iPod Touch, but I need to know how many quality useful apps that I can actually use. So I need to weed out all the lame, duplicates, fart apps, games etc to get the cream of the crop, then to choose which apps I need if I'm short on space. If there is enough apps then, I will buy a iPod Touch and download all those good apps.
Think of it like buying a iPod Classic with all the hit songs and bands of Classic Rock already installed.
I don't want to go through what I had to go through with iTunes and 12,000 songs, picking and choosing. It takes too long and costs too much.
Am I making any sense now?
Again, you need to be looking for something you want. For example, last year I wanted to lose weight so I did my research and downloaded an app, which did everything I wanted and more. Few weeks later that app showed up in an iPhone TV ad.
Apps are not like music. With apps you can't go to the top 10 list and buy one of them because they are on the top 10 list. For example, non of todays paid top 10 apps really interest me because non of them meets my needs. Another example, I am an engineer and all my favorite engineering apps never make it to the top lists because those apps are not main stream apps.
I can give you an iPod Touch with the my personal best apps. However, are you going to use those apps? are you going to use the best app that read CAD files? what about the best app that remotely monitor your server stats? Those are all apps that I need on daily basis but might not interest you at all.
You will need to find them yourself. No one can help you unless you tell us what you do and what are your hobbies and interests.
I just want to find the best useful apps everyone approves of and then decide from there which ones I find useful for my particular needs.
Obviously there are so many apps out there, doing different things I'm not aware of, that I might find useful if I knew about them.
I cant' find these apps out, because they are buried along with 100,000 other apps.
I'm trying to justify buying a iPod Touch, but I need to know how many quality useful apps that I can actually use. So I need to weed out all the lame, duplicates, fart apps, games etc to get the cream of the crop, then to choose which apps I need if I'm short on space. If there is enough apps then, I will buy a iPod Touch and download all those good apps.
Think of it like buying a iPod Classic with all the hit songs and bands of Classic Rock already installed.
I don't want to go through what I had to go through with iTunes and 12,000 songs, picking and choosing. It takes too long and costs too much.
Am I making any sense now?
Seriously the list you want would be way too long. If only 1% of apps were "useful", the list of apps would still be over 1000. Good luck going through a list like that. Everyone has different needs and this have different app preferences. You don't buy an iPod touch for the apps anyway. You buy it for the ecosystem and the overall experience. You get a music and video player first and foremost. You get web browsing and email second. If you use the Mail app on a mac your email on the iPod will be set up automatically. Thirdly you get apps that can fill almost any niche you can think of.
Personally I like RunKeeper (but that uses GPS, so touch users would have to use something like Nike+) for running, Beejive (meebo is a good free alternative) for instant messaging (7 day login and push notification ftw), Movies to see what's playing, read reviews, watch trailers and even purchase tickets, HockeyGPS to find out where the arena that I'm playing my hockey game is at, SnowReports for... snow reports at my favorite mountains, Alarm Clock to turn my iPhone into a night stand, Scoremobile for sports scores, SkySmash is a pretty fun arcade style scrolling airplane game, Air Mouse is great, Appbox pro is a good bundle of utility apps. I could go on, but it's really pointless. One of my favorite features is being able to save safari bookmarks as icons with your apps. The iPhone/iPod touch is about convergence and ease of use. There are a lot of apps that just replicate functions of websites, but are much more useful because of how quickly you can get the information you are after.
You simply can't quantify the experience of using an iPhone or iPod touch, if you are having trouble qualifying your purchase, try using one.
I can give you an iPod Touch with the my personal best apps. However, are you going to use those apps? are you going to use the best app that read CAD files? what about the best app that remotely monitor your server stats? Those are all apps that I need on daily basis but might not interest you at all.
You will need to find them yourself. No one can help you unless you tell us what you do and what are your hobbies and interests.
(sigh) I deal with this type of query all the time. "Which apps should I download?" with no indication of interests.
I'm sorry to say that the people who ask these sort of questions usually have other much larger issues in communicating their thoughts to others.
If they were clear-headed enough to say, "I like sports news, particular English Premier League" or "I love astronomy" or "I like card games" or "I like kittens", they would either ask really pointed questions, or they wouldn't be asking the question at all, since they would have done their homework via Internet searches, etc.
Sadly, these technology rumor sites seem to be a magnet for dazed and confused fumblers.
I want the iPod Touch to load up on useful apps, to use it like a portable tool.
Obviously my needs are different than others, that's why I'm trying to find just the best and most useful most everyone else has have found useful in each category and then going on from there.
Wading through the App Store is a chore and there isn't enough reviews.
For instance I just tried Education and Most Popular, I get 545 pages with only 20 apps per page (10,900 apps)
10 pages in, 200 apps later, it takes (on broadband cable) 15 seconds to load each page of 20 apps, then another 15 seconds each to review the two apps I was possibly interested in, only to find out there is incomplete reviews or none at all, then it takes another 15 seconds to go back.
So for 200 apps, it took (15*10) + (2*15) + (2*15) or 210 seconds.
Now to apply that to the entire Education section of the App Store will take me about 3.2 HOURS! to review 10,900 apps. And that's just one section I'm interested in.
I'm sorry, the App Store system is broken as a means to review/provide review for the great quantity of apps available.
That's why I'm asking if there is a faster way, a web site review or something.
NEWS FLASH:
Steve Jobs: "Paying dividend or doing buyback would not change stock price
Apple has to "think big" to move the needle
See's opportunities internationally
Large cash balance gives company flexibility and security"
- per CNBC
That's why I'm asking if there is a faster way, a web site review or something.
Did you try to Google "best iPhone apps"?!
When I have the need to perform a certain function (like using my phone as a windows media center remote) I look for an app that does that.
The key is to look for an app to meet a specific need. When I do that I find that the majority of the apps are great and go beyond my original requirements. It's rare that I don't have more than 3+ outstanding apps (that go beyond my original requirements) competing for my money.
I think this competition is what drives the price down.
NEWS FLASH:
Steve Jobs: "Paying dividend or doing buyback would not change stock price
Apple has to "think big" to move the needle
See's opportunities internationally
Large cash balance gives company flexibility and security"
- per CNBC
Again, you are not following NasserAE's suggestion to specify *what* interests you have and to use the iTunes search engine (or a website search engine like Google) more judiciously.
Use search terms like "blackjack", "astronomy", or type in "iphone app review" into Google. Remember that the Top Apps is a consensus viewpoint, a popularity contest (which is not necessarily an indication of a given app's usefulness to a particular individual).
You would get more pointed and helpful responses if you listed *your* interests. I could tell you that Bloomberg is a great stock quote/news apps, but if you don't care for that sort of thing, I've wasted time for both of us (me typing, you reading).
P.S., yes, Apple is having their annual shareholders meeting today.
Did you try to Google "best iPhone apps"?!
Why on earth would Whoohoo bother to try?
He doesn't have an iPod touch or iPhone to use them on.
I've done that, unfortunately haven't found a user rated site or a non-bias or non-compensated site to be able to just find the best apps.
Perhaps you can recommend such a site?
I would really like to find just the best useful apps the App Store offers, not porn, games, fart apps and the like.
thanks, sorry to be a bother....
To find the best most useful apps without reading the accompanying schpiel is a tough call. I have a VERY useful app to record my mileage. The only problem is that I always forget so while the app is useful I remain useless. The most useful app for me, however must be the Navigon turn by turn GPS. But I have three screens of what I consider very useful apps (the rest are my kid's games). Perhaps the most useful app for someone like you is 'appfinder'. Unfortunately you have to read to find out what its about.
LOL DROID DOES not appeal to women at all...
The Droid is now for sale on Verizon for $49 with contract while the Eris is now free of charge with contract. I think you can add men to that list, too.
The Droid is now for sale on Verizon for $49 with contract while the Eris is now free of charge with contract. I think you can add men to that list, too.
I wonder if the same trolls will bash Verizon or Motorola for slashing the price like they keep bashing Apple for lowering the first iPhone price. At least Apple gave store credit to those who paid the original price
The key is to look for an app to meet a specific need.
The iPod Touch doesn't have a always available internet connection, so I can't always just look up something when the need arrives, like one can with a iPhone. The iPod Touch has to be preloaded with useful apps ahead of time. (I already have a iPod Classic filled with music, so the Touch will be a tool basically.)
I like to be able to review the best of apps to anticipate their use later, like one would have dictionary around to look up definitions. However the App Store is much too slow and the reviews insufficient.
I would also like to be exposed to new apps that others find extremely useful and determine if I can anticipate a need for some of those apps myself.
Right now the only option I see is a painstaking process of reviewing every app on the App Store, no simpler or faster process exists.