Staying Afloat In a Sea of iPhone Apps

Burnsy writes "During all the hype of Apple celebrating its 1.5 billion iPhone App Store downloads, some good advice on how to be successful and stand out in the App Store came out. One story describes how developers are increasingly coming up with various strategies to make a splash, employing everything from temporary discounts to guerilla marketing tactics. On the other hand, some successful developers, such as the creator of the Flight Control app, which has been the number one selling app in 20 countries, talk about the pitfalls of Apple's approval process for the App Store. They say it can take a developer up to three months to get an application approved and distributed on the App Store and that maybe the iPhone bubble is soon to burst." A related story at Wired points out that the games category — already crowded with over 13,000 entries — is getting even more competitive as the major game publishers push into the market.

Staying Afloat ?

[ciderVisor]

There's an app for that !

Re:So.... how many of them are worth using?

[Anonymous Monkey]

Hay, no talking bad about Linux...er...never mind.

Re:as an end user....

[Anonymous Coward]

It's both incredibly awesome and incredibly frustrating at the same time. I love that I can think of something and sure enough, there's an app for it. But at the same time, sometimes there's 50 apps doing basically the same thing and it's hard to weed the chaff from the grain.

Sort of like Windows?

Re:approval process blues - developers causing it!

[WiseWeasel]

Something must be done! Now what's this hot girl farting app you speak of? I'll pay $50 for one!

Re:There's a fair number of useless apps

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure perl will be a great help in administering your http server... from your iphone.

Re:Frustrating For Developers

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Not everyone has iTunes installed on every machine?

But then... how would you live?