I'm of the same thought mode - I'd like to know what the iPhone app store has that is so much better and more abundant than the Android app store. Anything I can possibly think of, and MUCH more - is all there for free. I can't keep up with all the new applications being released on there. I haven't paid for a single app yet - although I may pay for premium Remember the milk so I have access to their app. I haven't decided on that yet.
Another app I haven't bought but tried a free usage of is "locate". Very cool app where you can set your profiles on the phone to switch depending on where you are at. IE - When you arrive at work, it can automatically switch you to 'silent' mode. If you arrive home, it can switch wallpaper, appearance, ringtones, etc. You can set a profile for anyplace you want and when the GPS detects you arrive there - it loads up that profile. Pretty darn cool.
Although I have no problem with the hardware keyboard, and I do still use it occasionally - I'm finding myself now using the touch keypad more and more as I've gotten comfortable with the suggest / spelling feature of words using the touch pad.
The best aspect for me, by far, is all the integration that is very well done with Google applicaitons. Gmail is about perfect, GPS-Maps/street view is superb, Voice is extremely cool, Reader works very well, and I'm finding listen is really cool for podcasting purposes - although I'm not a 'huge' podcast listener.
We had this discussion over at iRacing about our favorite phone apps just the last day or two.
Apps I use alot are:
Dolphin web browser (Has multi touch enabled)
Swift (Twitter)
Newsrob (Google Reader)
Remember the Milk (Although I need to go premium, trial up)
Other apps I find very cool include:
eBuddy (IM client)
Handcent for chat
Evernote
Layar Browser
Listen (Google app for podcasts and such)
Tip Calc
USA Today
The Weather Channel
Barcode Scanner
Goggles (Google image searcher)
Flixter
NFL Super fan DirecTV app (not now of course)
Shazam
Last.fm
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Certainly all the best app developers are flooding to the Android store to give their apps away for free. (Sarcasm)
Download iTunes and hop on there some time. For a big racing fan you have dozens of excellent choices.
Whatever the Droid store has, the iTunes store has more of. You have 5 weather apps, the iPhone has 50. It's not an exaggeration. Plus movies, music, television, and seamless podcast syncing, without comment spam.
I'm carrying over 4 Gigs of apps on my phone at the moment, with many, many more that I swap in and out as the mood strikes me. I have no doubt that the Droid store is getting better, but you can hardly expect it to match the store that's been around longer and has a larger developer support base.
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.
Am I doing it wrong? I have 30 page me-too App overload with my iPhone. I want a weather app, I don't want to pay for it, because there's 31 pages of them. But I can't sort through them all. I want a decent free weather app that doesn't spam me or just suck. I'm using an obsolete WeatherBug app from 4 OS upgrades ago to check my weather - because the default iPhone version doesn't give enough detail, and all the updated free "lite" versions spam me with annoying banner ads.
I have 5 weather apps on my iPhone. The default one from Apple, Weatherbug Elite, Accuweather, The Weather Channel, and "Hot Weather" (a pinup app, lol.)
If you don't want to pay and/or are irritated with ads, there are other choices for you. There are 30+ pages of choices. I'm afraid I can't help you if you are too cheap, too easily irritated, AND too lazy to look. It's like you want me to load your iPhone for you. sheesh!
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.
How many apps do you need to do the same damn thing?
I have the Weather Channel app - it does what I need it to do. The same thing as every other app, it gives me the incorrect weather just like the guy on The Weather Channel.
If I don't like it, I can download weather bug, or better yet - just hit 'weather' inside my USA Today app. Just for the record, as of this morning there are 254 weather applications in the Android app store.
If iPhone fanboys need 3,000 versions of solitaire and 30+ pages of weather apps to maintain their sense of superiority, more power to you.
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