IPhone App Store Encourages New Affliction: Appiphilia

For the last few weeks, I’ve been staying up late glued to my screen, and frankly it has been wreaking havoc on my sleep patterns. No, not watching the Olympics or the nonstop political gabfest on 24/7 news channels.

I have been obsessively logging in to iTunes.

It’s not about the songs, audio books, TV shows or movies. It’s all about the apps.

As an early adopter of the iPhone–yeah, I paid full price last year; what of it?–the one thing I really missed in retiring my Palm PDA was having all the many applications that entertained and aided me in living my life. Apple didn’t let developers create programs for the iPhone when it launched (only its Web browser, which is a huge difference), so I couldn’t track my expenses, calculate my calories and get my game on as I could through the programs I had downloaded for my Palm.

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