After all the initial ‘new device’ excitement with iPhone, iPad and Touchpad over past few years here let me take stock.
I installed roughly 100-200 apps on the iPhone/iPad.
The cycle: install neat new app, then rarely use it again; but update regularily nevertheless.
Most used applications:
- weather
- news (BBC, Huffpost)
- alarm clock (yes my $1000 alarm clock)
- photography
- iPhone: very handy, life-changing ability to quickly make copies of anything.. very convenient
- iPad: only useful to view photos, and not well-designed at all (an utter mess actually)
- travel/itinerary (very handy)
- maps/GPS
- finding friends current location
- texting.. awkward typing messages on tiny flat keypad though –prefer voice, or emails via desktop computer
- calendar/reminders
- notes
Other apps that I occasionally use but haven’t made routine part of my life: book readers, photo light meters, song recognizers, oh.. and games.. convenient for games (light entertainment) but that is not a big part of my routine.
So there are 100+ apps on my phone that I will never use again.. so for all Apple’s claims about 100,000’s of applications, 10 good ones would be even better. So I could really make do with an original PDA. 🙂 but it’s sometimes nice to have the infinite flexibility of the new iPhone-like devices.
Surprisingly I do not use the device for email; even for reading email.
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