iPhone 4: Apps, cases, accessories - Applications and accessories for iPhone

As everyone knows, Apple’s iPhone has taken the world by storm and one of the major reasons for this unprecedented success is its App Store that has completely revolutionized the way we look at mobile phones. All of a sudden the “coolness” factor of a company is based on whether they have iPhone 4 applications or not.

Every day I see on Twitter how people yelling at companies left and right that they should build an app for this and that. And companies’ geeks understood. Getting the attention of Apple’s App Store is fantastic free advertising and all pundits in the blogosphere. You increase the company’s traffic directly to the skies if they make a good iPhone 4 application. It is also a natural way to charge for an iPhone application, but it is now very difficult to charge for a web application.

But there is also a downside to all these applications. The last five years has moved the world by leaps and bounds towards becoming more and more platform independent. The Web is constantly more and more sophisticated and not only Google shows with Google Wave that it is possible to build fairly powerful applications right in your own browser. Applications that are completely platform independent and based on technologies that are not owned by individual companies.

How often we hear people ask for a Windows application for iPhone 4 or for any other device? Not so much. But on the iPhone, these applications in my opinion or many of them as well should be made by using web applications. It is understood that the reasons for which these applications are built. Interface is a bit more streamlined, application runs a bit faster and you get a wider range of APIs and advanced graphics. But above all get their shine in the App Store. The problem is that if companies build their applications on the Web so you can lose a lot of free advertising because Apple does not allow you to post your Web applications in the App Store and it is only where people are looking for applications in the current situation.

A good example is Google’s Gmail application that is fantastic in the iPhone but there are very few who even know what it is exactly because it is a Web application and not in the AppStore. How many are there who know that you can add web applications on the iPhone “home screen” and have a nice little icon to them just like any app at any time?

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