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Has AppStore peaked yet?

mobility, technology

It is going bigger and bigger everyday… Apple’s AppStore is growing like a snowball…

On March 17th iPhone OS 3.0 was announced, developers are coding for it now. It looks like new iPhone is on the way. Lots of accessories will be available starting this june.

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It seems like everything is going really well for Apple and AppStore.

When do you think is it gonna peak? Or will it?

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When springboard gets out of control…

mobility, technology

Since April 2008 I own an iPhone 2G and I am verry happy with it. I love installing apps, free or not. But like everyone else, I also encounter a problem which decreases the usability of iPhone. The problem occurs if you install too many apps from AppStore.

springboard-iphone

Currently iPhone springboard only allows 9 pages which means ((9 x 16) + 4) 148 apps at most (4 dock icons). This is an important limit because there are more than 15.000 apps in AppStore and it has not even peaked yet!

But my problem is not the amount of the apps, 5 or 6 pages seem OK for me (just now). However, organizing those apps is a total nightmare! I can only pick one icon at a time and if I need to move it accross 4-5 pages all of the other pages’ orientation gets messed up. It takes too much time to organize all of the pages and some time later you get bored and leave them alone…

I think having an interface in iTunes to help users to reorganize their springboard should not be a tough job. Hopefully Apple will implement such feature and make iPhone users even more happier…

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Facebook iPhone App still buggy

mobility, technology

Last week Facebook released an updated version of its iPhone App. (Release date is wrong, I don’t know why…)

Facebook says: “This update improves stability and fixes a number of bugs, including:” (see screenshot below)

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However after a week I can say that the Facebook App is still as buggy as before. It freezes, stops refreshing, do not download some photos, crashes etc…

Hope they can release another update soon to fix these issues… By the way, thanks to developers they at least fixed the wrong timestamps issue.

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