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I don't have a smart phone. What is it about iphones/androids that make it difficult to find and save interesting apps on the web? Is it that much more diffic

• MrJagil 15y ago
  No, but that is already difficult enough. How many non-preinstalled apps does your mom have on her pc? The app store changed all this. Suddenly, downloading apps was cool and fun. With this new web-app paradigm we're back to square one unless Apple steps in.
  • bad_user 15y ago
    I don't see how the app store changed it all. I've got both a Galaxy S with Android 2.3 and an iPhone 3GS and I do use a lot of apps, but I knew about the existence of every one of them from -- the WEB. I mostly search for brands (I'm sure a lot of people do), like Skype, Facebook, Flickr or Angry Birds. For my Android I couldn't find an official Flickr client, therefore I haven't installed one, preferring to use the web interface instead. That's not to say that I haven't discovered apps through the app store, but their usage was less than a single day. And when I searched for a number blacklister for my Android, I had to search the web to find a reliable one, as there are at least a dozen in Google's app store with big ratings that don't work properly and none in iTunes (through the web I found out that I have to jailbreak my iPhone). Really, the app store is good for providing a payments system and maybe getting some inspiration from available reviews when in doubt, but the reviews are kind of unreliable as devs found ways to spam or workaround bad reviews (like uploading the app under a slightly different name). It's terrible for finding stuff and it's useless for finding out what's possible/allowed.