The number of applications in the app store is approaching 100,000. The quality of applications in this massive of a marketplace is hard to measure. Apple provides the star ratings for applications but I like to have a few more sources. Check out:
app.itize.us
app.itize.us is a site highlighting the best of emerging apps in the store. The site is really well categorized and will surely show you some hidden great apps.
Fresh Apps
Fresh Apps is a user driven review site to supplement the star and comment sections of the App Store which was created by iCodeBlog contributor Brandon Trebitowski (brandontreb). User can get an account and set apps as “Fresh” to boost their popularity on the site.
Touch Arcade
Touch Arcade is a very popular iPhone game review and preview site. The site was created by the founder of Mac Rumors and is a one stop show for a look at the most quality games on or coming to the store.
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I’ll try… thank a lot!
Good point. One of the biggest struggles with being an App developer is getting your apps noticed. Just putting your app in the app store is not sufficient to get noticed. You need to have a comprehensive marketing plan and submitting your apps to sites like these certainly helps quite a bit.
100.000? you underestimate the number of available apps, apptism is tracking 147,301 apps today (grossing $4000 each on average).
However the IT world at large still does not interpret all this as that Cocoa is a VERY productive developer API. If you take into account the number of operating systems, applications & updates that Apple has pushed since Y2K, compared to Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Borland, etc. would you still train/procure/hire for C#, Java, and such?
Hi Friends,
I want an iPhone App to make a phone call. Is it possible? Most have suggested
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"tel:1-000-0000-"]]; using this way. But is there any that I can make call from my application, with out going to Phone Application.
Please me help me out of this problem.
Regards,
krishnan.
Thanks for the tips.
It’s being hard this days get the apps noticed.
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