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Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing but Not Quite Fast Enough for the ADD Set

Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm PT

Someone get a dose of Ritalin stat to the noisy but deeply misguided critics who took news of a huge number of downloads of apps for the Apple iPhone and immediately concluded it was just not good enough. Thus, as reported today in The Wall Street Journal, 60 million downloads in 30 days–mostly for free apps, but with about $30 million in revenue, and a runway of three million more new iPhones out there too–is a chance to talk about how it all is just so unexciting and how the apps market is officially saturated? Am I missing something here? One would assume that were these pundits pioneers, they would get to Ohio and declare that going farther west held very little promise, thank you very much!

A Shopping Trip To the App Store For Your iPhone

Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on July 22, 2008 at 6:50 pm PT

The best feature in Apple’s second-generation iPhone 3G is the “App Store,” a distribution mechanism for third-party programs. In general, the process of choosing and downloading apps is easy and quick, and most of the programs are useful or entertaining. Here’s a guide to choosing the apps for your iPhone.

All Grown Up: Apple Apps Are for Adults (There, We Said It)

Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2008 at 8:26 am PT

When Apple releases its third-quarter earnings after the close today, Wall Street will be looking hard for a solid performance from the company to help buoy a tech sector smacked silly by weak reports from industry leaders Microsoft and Google last week. But more important to me is what is happening with the plethora of third-party apps now available on the iTunes App Store–both free and paid–for use on the iPhone platform. That’s because Apple has finally built a platform for adults.

Ten iPhone Programs to Check Out

Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on July 13, 2008 at 5:32 pm PT

I’ve spent part of the weekend downloading and trying out dozens of the more than 500 new third-party iPhone applications that launched with the debut of Apple’s “App store.”