I'll leave the debate over what makes a "killer app" to you guys. I just want to thank the OP for his list. I'm really digging 8pen so far. It's changing how I interact with my phone (which, one could argue, deems it "killer").
Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
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Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#62Parcels seems to be a knock-off of the iOS Delivery Status app, which I use a lot: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/delivery-status-touch.h... I've noticed this about the Market - there are a lot of blatant clones of better-executed iOS apps.
"I've noticed this about the Market - there are a lot of blatant clones of better-executed iOS apps." Is this not also true of the Apple app store?
Not from what I've seen. There may be multiple apps for one task, but generally they don't directly copy one another.
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#63To me, the biggest killer app for the iPhone is iTunes integration. I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it. And, given the fact that something like 75% of the media player market is iPod, that means that a lot of people have iTunes installed, and getting an iPhone set up is pretty painless. I know there are several music sy…
Is this a joke? iTunes is a horrible app that is way to underpowered and annoying to use, you are limited to syncing which means you can't use it with more than one device or more than one computer, and you can't copy half an album or just a few songs from a playlist.
iTunes takes up the first twenty spots on the list of what I hate about the iPhone. It is awful in so many ways that it boggles the mind.
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#64To me, the biggest killer app for the iPhone is iTunes integration. I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it. And, given the fact that something like 75% of the media player market is iPod, that means that a lot of people have iTunes installed, and getting an iPhone set up is pretty painless. I know there are several music sy…
Is this a joke? iTunes is a horrible app that is way to underpowered and annoying to use, you are limited to syncing which means you can't use it with more than one device or more than one computer, and you can't copy half an album or just a few songs from a playlist.
What's better? DoubleTwist? WinAmp?
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I've noticed this about the Market - there are a lot of blatant clones of better-executed iOS apps." Is this not also true of the Apple app store?
Not from what I've seen. There may be multiple apps for one task, but generally they don't directly copy one another.
Which is pretty much what I've seen on Android. When I go looking for something I find an assorted of apps but rarely are they just bad clones.
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#66None of those are "killer apps" in the classical definition of the phrase. Those are apps that are awesome to you, but not killer apps. People use killer app now to mean any good app, kind of how every model today is a super model if you know their name. Halo was a killer app for xbox 360. People bought xboxes to play halo, hence a killer app. People arent going to buy an android phone to use a music player with a ne…
I agree. There are four killer apps to date, and they exist on all the big players: 1) Web browser 2) Email client 3) GPS/Navi 4) SMS There is no application I've never heard anyone, other than a Gruber/Scoble like geek saying, "I need to buy an iPhone because of this app". In fact, ask someone who does NOT own an iPhone to name one iPhone application. Just one. Any one will do. I bet most of the time the answer will…
I'm considering buying an iPhone or an Android Phone (like a Samsung Galaxy) just to be able to use RunKeeper - looking forward to getting that marathon badge :)
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The iPhone had a killer app in the full web(minus flash) web browser. No other phone at the time had a web browser anywhere near as good as mobile safari is. That and google maps and mail made a compelling case to buy the phone.
> No other phone at the time had a web browser anywhere near as good as mobile safari is. The N95 was out for a year earlier and had a mobile webkit browser and 3G. That said, the 2G iPhone had a larger screen.
Was it multitouch screen? The integration of multitouch + the web was pretty amazing and I would consider it a killer app over the arrow based web browsing that came before the iPhone. Full web + multitouch(zooming and selection of links are amazing) + high DPI screen + large enough to get things done without being too big to fit in a pocket == killer app.
When I say that there wasn't a competitor that was close I mean in total experience not just having the web. In my opinion all the little things matter immensely.
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#68To me, the biggest killer app for the iPhone is iTunes integration. I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it. And, given the fact that something like 75% of the media player market is iPod, that means that a lot of people have iTunes installed, and getting an iPhone set up is pretty painless. I know there are several music sy…
To me the only thing killer about the iTunes integration for the iPhone is that it almost kills the experience for me. I would really like to get rid of iTunes, but I can't since I need to use it to sync my iPhone.
For music I use Spotify, and Spotify has applications for both iPhone and Android.
I also listen to podcasts, but I would like to manage that entirely from my phone instead of having to use iTunes to download the episodes. I know you can get new episodes with the phone, but that is far too manual and requires WiFi which I keep turned off to save on battery.
Re: Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"
#69To me, the biggest killer app for the iPhone is iTunes integration. I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it. And, given the fact that something like 75% of the media player market is iPod, that means that a lot of people have iTunes installed, and getting an iPhone set up is pretty painless. I know there are several music sy…
"I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it." You plug it in into a USB port and drag files over to the mounted drive. Conversely, any app or product that requires me to use iTunes is pretty much out of the running for me because it is too damn annoying to work with.
This is just way too complicated for the average user, especially if they're already using iTunes to manage their music (which they probably are). Instead of just plugging in their phone and having it just work, they have to:
1. Plug the phone in
2. Figure out that they have to pull down the notification shade and choose "mount disk"
3. Figure out where iTunes keeps their music files
4. Find the mounted disk on their system
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No other phone at the time had a web browser anywhere near as good as mobile safari is. The N95 was out for a year earlier and had a mobile webkit browser and 3G. That said, the 2G iPhone had a larger screen.
Was it multitouch screen? The integration of multitouch + the web was pretty amazing and I would consider it a killer app over the arrow based web browsing that came before the iPhone. Full web + multitouch(zooming and selection of links are amazing) + high DPI screen + large enough to get things done without being too big to fit in a pocket == killer app. When I say that there wasn't a competitor that was close I me…
Yeah, I think you've got it, the multitouch vs pan-and-zoom pretty much made it. Pity Nokia got so close but fudged it.