“Apple’s App Store claimed explosive growth in 2009, with more than 100,000 applications and 2 billion downloads by November. That expansion has led to something of a recent crackdown on Apple’s part, with the company taking a more aggressive stance about weeding out useless or fraudulent mobile applications,” eWeek reports. “Even so, the sheer number of programs available occasionally makes it difficult to decide which apps will actually fit your wants and needs, particularly within a business context.”
To help you out, the following presentation details eWEEK’s choices of 2009’s best iPhone apps for IT administrators, road warriors, shoppers, and those who just want to use their iPhone to find the cheapest gas or best music, or make free phone calls via Skype. Which is to say, there’s a little something here for everyone.
eWeek’s Top 20 iPhone Apps of 2009:
• Skype (free)
• NYTimes (free)
• Amazon Mobile (free)
• Bump (free)
• Facebook (free)
• Google Mobile (free)
• Google Earth (free)
• Kindle for iPhone (free)
• Network Admin (US$5.99)
• WinAdmin ($11.99)
• Pandora Radio (free)
• Bloomberg (free)
• iXpenseIt ($4.99)
• Oracle Business Indicators (free)
• FTP On The Go ($9.99)
• FlightTrack ($4.99)
• Go Green (free)
• Cheap Gas (free)
• Salesforce.com Mobile (free)
• Remote Desktop Lite (free)
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: North Americans should check out Magellan RoadMate 2010 North America ($59.99 thru Jan. 3, then $99.99). Magellan provided us with the app and we’re still testing it, but we like it so far.
Olive Tree is pretty impressive as well.
TomTom for $49.95 thru 12/28 kicks Magellan’s arse!!!!
checkout AroundMe
Forget the NY Times App. It’s garbage. It’s slow as molasses and crashes constantly. I tried downloading and installing three times, and it only got worse. A shame. It’s the most unreliable iPhone app I have ever used. Avoid it at all costs!
How can any nav app be better than MotionX’s? It’s cheaper than all of them and Andy Ihnatko says it’s the best and it’s by the same guys who made that realistic dice rolling app. It’s great.
Ironic…I can’t view the piece on my iPhone because it is Flash driven. Is somebody doing math at eWeek????
But…But…But…
Where’s the Bing app? Surely that should be on the list!
Well, OK, it hasn’t been out to long.
Wait ’til next year!!!!
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NY Times is a joke. Not ony badly written (crashes) and extremely slow, the paper is more politically correct than ever and more leftist oriented than the Russians and Chinese were in the seventies.
…when you see a list containing 2 or 3 Windows controlling apps plus some network, database and business crap you know that list is not for you.
My never-ending, often futile quest for useful iPhone apps continues…
to the person who signed the message with “I hate to disagree but…”:
The publication in question is eWeek. Their target audience is IT professionals in the trenches (affectionately called IT drones). Most of their productive time is spent managing Windows and networks, hence several apps for that.
I’m not sure how long have you been on your quest, but if it is anything longer than, oh, three hours, you must have been looking in all the wrong places.
… iTunes App store, browsed with iTunes app on a desktop or iPhone, is not a good way to find useful iPhone apps, dear Predrag.
@ I hate to disagree…
Dude/Dudette,
Clue in. Look at the source, then be HAPPY that IT (i.e., generally Windoze drones) are using the iPhone instead of WinMobile.
Pull head out of ass before Xmas please?
@ I hate to disagree but…
So, care to enlighten us to what you are after?
Grrr, people like you really wind me up. Moan moan moan moan. No answers, no ideas, just moan moan moan.
Here’s a hint; if you know what you are after, and apparently no one else does – write an App, make a million, and retire.
Methinks you will just carry on moaning though.
That MotionX nav app blows. It has far more menu options than is necessary, making it very much cluttered. The street names on the live map can be upside down, depending on what direction you are driving. The map details are crude at best. And as petty as this may be… it uses Bing. Thank you, but I’ll stick with an app that doesn’t use data from a company that hates the iPhone.
… I have to moan when browsing iTunes app store. If you don’t feel my pain then you are high on cool aid. [irony]And thanks for the idea: I think I will make a million writing a “Moan.app” – I am sure many people will find it useful… [/irony]
I agree that the NYTimes app is a joke. I created an icon for the NYTimes mobile website. That works for me.
This may help the moaners – http://appexplorer.com/
“Where”. Free.
Oh, and “Red Laser”.
Bob Dobbs,
Since the app you hate so much is number two on the list have you considered that perhaps the problem is with you and not the app?
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@Bob Dobbs and ron
I use the NYT app in the UK. I don’t think it has crashed once, but loading is slow when out of 3G range. I think the NYT layout is among the best I have seen for a news app. It is clean and easy to navigate. However, the Time Magazine app interface, which is very different, is also growing on me.
@Ron
most excellent link ! … thanks
The NY Times is amazingly well done. It never crashes for me. It caches articles locally automatically so you can read when you’re offline – like underground in the subway. It has a great option to choose the default font size. In short, it is one of the best apps out there, as far as usability and efficiency. Your disagreement with its politics and/or view point is absolutely irrelevant to the quality if the app. It’s reviews like that that make the iTunes App Store review system useless.
Thanks for giving different iphone application. Software and Applications built for iPhone are in true sense the display of one’s creativity, which blends well with the technology.Many company has developed a framework for iPhone application development which leads to development of the application much faster with quick turnaround time.