50 Essential iPhone Apps: Fall 2009
source: http://gizmodo.com/5352720/gizmodos-essential-iphone-apps-fall-2009
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More than a year after launch, there are 74,031 apps in the iPhone App store. Most of them are crap. A few of them aren't. Here are the only 50 iPhone apps you actually need, all in one place.
Well, OK, if you count the overlapping apps—paid and free Twitter clients, neck-and-neck navigation apps, the jailbreakers—it's more like 56, but that's not the point, people: The point is, since the last time we corralled all the best of the best (barring our weekly roundups, of course), the iPhone, the App Store and, well, apps have changed immeasurably. In the last nine months we saw the release of the 3GS and iPhone OS 3.0, Apple loosening its grip on what kinds of apps people are allowed to create, and hundreds of fresh developers making genuinely new, genuinely impressive stuff. It was time.
We've got the best games, messaging apps, eBook readers, dictionaries, and productivity software. We've got apps to keep you up on current events, to keep your daily music intake interesting, to keep you entertained on the train, or to guide to where your going. These are the essential iPhone apps—a list that'll transform that shiny, boring brick you just bought into the device that everyone's always raving about.
What counts as an essential iPhone app changes all the time, and so should our guide: If we've missed anything huge, or you've got a much better suggestion for a particular type of app, let us know. We'll be updating this thing pretty frequently, and a million Gizmodo readers can probably do a better job at sorting through the app mess than a single Gizmodo editor.
So, hit the "iPhone Apps" link for a look:
http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone-apps-directory/
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Well, OK, if you count the overlapping apps—paid and free Twitter clients, neck-and-neck navigation apps, the jailbreakers—it's more like 56, but that's not the point, people: The point is, since the last time we corralled all the best of the best (barring our weekly roundups, of course), the iPhone, the App Store and, well, apps have changed immeasurably. In the last nine months we saw the release of the 3GS and iPhone OS 3.0, Apple loosening its grip on what kinds of apps people are allowed to create, and hundreds of fresh developers making genuinely new, genuinely impressive stuff. It was time.
We've got the best games, messaging apps, eBook readers, dictionaries, and productivity software. We've got apps to keep you up on current events, to keep your daily music intake interesting, to keep you entertained on the train, or to guide to where your going. These are the essential iPhone apps—a list that'll transform that shiny, boring brick you just bought into the device that everyone's always raving about.
What counts as an essential iPhone app changes all the time, and so should our guide: If we've missed anything huge, or you've got a much better suggestion for a particular type of app, let us know. We'll be updating this thing pretty frequently, and a million Gizmodo readers can probably do a better job at sorting through the app mess than a single Gizmodo editor.
So, hit the "iPhone Apps" link for a look:
http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone-apps-directory/
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