by Jason Wilk on December 18, 2008
- Mint for the iPhone has just launched. Check balances on your checking, savings, credit card and loan accounts. Track expenses and budgets. Watch the dismal performance of your 401(k), brokerage and IRA accounts, etc.
- Not available in the app store yet, but you can download it here
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by Jason Wilk on November 29, 2008
- 148Apps, an iPhone app reviewer says 10,000 applications are now available on the iPhone App store
- Here’s a breakdown:
- 24% of apps are free
- 35% cost $.99
- Average cost is $3.12, including free apps.
- 34% are games or entertainment
- Biggest waste of iPhone developer time: Weather apps. There are actually 49 different weather apps on there even though the iPhone has one built on. Come on with that.
- Apps that I use everyday: Trace, Facebook, Free RSS Reader, PlusMo College Football App, PapiJump, Pandora, Flashlight and
Are you an iPhone developer with some extra time that can help build me a cool app I have an idea for? (I promise it’s not a weather app. email Jason@tinyComb.com)
by John Jorgensen on November 22, 2008
- Alex Rigopulos, co-creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, says he is very interested in creating a version of the games on the iPhone.
- Alex: “If we made a move to the iPhone, I would want to take an ambitious step in that direction, rather than just do a kind of port to the platform. Maybe we’ll get to [to the iPhone] late. But if we get there with something that’s better, for five dollars, we can probably sell it.”"
- As for Tap Tap Revenge, Alex says the game is hard to get into and besides the special NIN edition, the music selection sucks. I’d be inclined to agree with him.
- Please hurry, Alex.
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by John Jorgensen on November 21, 2008
- NMobile and Trapster are two iPhone apps that let users report speed traps from the road. The apps display them on a map and then alert you by making a noise when you’re about to get close to one.
- Trapster’s CEO says they’ve gained 100,000 users in the past 5 weeks, bringing their total to 200,000. NMobile, which was just released last week, has a userbase of 1,000.
- Trapster: free. NMobile: $4.99.
- NMobile lets users confirm speed traps. If unconfirmed, the trap icon is green. If enough users confirm the trap, the icon turns red.
- Law enforcement has reportedly given positive feedback, saying that anything causing someone to slowdown can only be a good thing. Well, yeah… but what about when I know there aren’t any traps so I speed up?
- Is the DUI Checkpoint app next?
- These apps really rely on the knowledge of the crowd to succeed. If I was NMobile and significantly behind in users I would work fast to develop an open source database of speed traps and then sell my app on features. As more of these apps come online there will be a need for it, and this would create pressure on Trapster to support it — thus taking away their head start 200x users advantage.
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