Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market

July 24, 2008 at 12:02 am PT

A year ago, we said that no iPhone SDK meant no killer apps. It came, and the apps are here in staggering numbers. But many of the amazing apps and concepts we grew to love as unofficial apps aren’t here, and only about 100 of the 500+ apps at launch in the official store are really useful or desirable—the rest are dupes or just bad. There are no less than five apps to turn my iPhone into a flashlight, yet I can’t turn it into a 3G-powered Wi-Fi hotspot. Why?

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Tagged with: App Store, Apple, Gizmodo, iPhone, Matt Buchanan, SDK

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