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So, here’s my list of my favorite iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) applications, as of April 2012. I’ve blogged about this before, but that was almost a year and a half ago (and again two years before that, which was even before the iPad)… and things change. I’ve settled on what I think are the best.) (I think I’ve bought fourteen calendar applications, and I shudder to think how many Twitter apps. All I can do is give you a list of the apps that I use, many of them daily, and frequently after downloading and trying a lot of competitors. People are always asking me “So, what apps should I get for my iPhone/iPad?” That’s hard to answer, since I don’t know your needs or your budget. So I wind up buying a lot of apps, experimenting with them, and letting them languish in a rear page, or delete them from my devices entirely. Of course, sometimes the app turns out to be less polished than I hoped, or buggy, or just doesn’t get updated when needed.

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Software developers gotta eat, and I don’t mine supporting them with a couple of bucks here and there. I’ve spent more than the price of that first iPhone in the App Store at this point, and I don’t mind. Lots of people have blogged about the race to the bottom, and I have nothing useful to add there… except that I never hesitate to buy a paid app if it looks like it does something I need, or even want.

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A few apps hovered about the magic ten-buck point, but most were driven down by the competition from free and 99¢ apps. Soon, those apps found their prices cut to $6.99, $4.99… or they were abandoned entirely. In the early days, I bought several apps for $9.99 or even more. In fact, I bought my first iPhone app on July 10, 2008, the night before the iPhone 3G was released… yes, I had that much faith in Apple (and James Thomson, author of PCalc) that I spent ten bucks on an app without hardware that I could run it on!Īnd, although I didn’t know it, I was participating in an interesting experiment in app pricing.

Once the App Store was announced, I knew I was hooked. Web apps looked interesting, but until developers got hold of a native SDK, I kept my money in my pocket. So the first-gen iPhone had lots of promise, but it wasn’t ready for me yet. I was utterly reliant on a couple of them (in particular, an RPN calculator… having been converted to the RPN Way by HP calculators in my youth, I simply cannot use “normal” calculators without an Enter key!). Remember, I was coming from years in the Palm ecosystem, where third-party apps were a key part of the experience. No, although I couldn’t have articulated it at the time, I was waiting for the App Store. I wasn’t waiting for the faster network connection or for the GPS chip, or cut-and-paste, although those were all nice. I used my Treo for nearly another year until the 2nd generation iPhone (confusingly named 3G) was released. I was in the store on launch day, I had one in my hand, my credit card was burning a hole in my pocket… and I left without one. It surprises people that, as a well-assimilated Apple fanboy, I didn’t buy the first generation iPhone. My iPhone 4S home screen as of April 2012

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