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Yet Another App Store Post

More notes on the App Store.

Diverse Issues

  • Several apps based on Web services with user account required.
  • Facilitate account creation? (OpenID-like, or “business card”)
  • Some apps send user to webpage for account creation.
  • Captcha during account creation, sometimes with Flash-based audio option.
  • Location-based (geo- features): keep having to allow, no setting on imprecision.
  • Audio-in required in Shazam
  • Not spelled out that Pandora Radio doesn’t work outside United States
  • Sync Facebook events?
  • App installation stops audio?
  • AOL Radio glitching at normal volume?
  • Molecules a bit kludgy

FAIL!

  • No demos????
  • Bunch of “standalone web apps” (not that innovative).
  • Crashes occasionally
  • No Montreal in UrbanSpoon? (Because of fear of language, it seems)
  • No Canada in ZipCodes
  • “Waadt” for “Vaud” in ZIPCodes
  • SMS required in Loopt
  • Accents on Facebook

Missing

  • Podcatching
  • Text entry
  • Offline-storage
  • Contacts and calendar integration (e.g. Facebook)
  • Wireless sync
  • Presentation remote
  • Brewing software
  • Obvious features and support (copy-paste, Flash, Background)

Paid Apps I’d Really Like to Try

Requirements Leaving ‘Touch in the Cold

  • Audio input
  • Location
  • Photos
  • SMS
  • Phone-based

My Subjective Assessment of Some Free Apps

Neat

Decent

Half-Baked/Semi-Fail

Undecided

FAIL!