Oh Wow Studios Blog » iphone apps http://www.ohwowstudios.com/owsblog Emerging technology zeitgeist- and mobile computing stuff. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:28:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Greatest iPhone App http://www.ohwowstudios.com/owsblog/2010/05/greatest-iphone-app/ http://www.ohwowstudios.com/owsblog/2010/05/greatest-iphone-app/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 18:22:56 +0000 razcarcoana http://www.ohwowstudios.com/owsblog/?p=1701

For anyone who is interested in word games, scrabble games, Word With Friends has to be the best app out there.

It’s a scrabble imitator, but it is far better than what Scrabble put out.  The Scrabble version is lame, slow, and obnoxious.  On the flip side, Word With Friends is clean, easy to use, fast, and satisfying!

Click here to buy it!   Words With Friends

You can play with your friends, or strangers. You’re also alerted with a badge or a notification when it’s your turn.  The app checks your moves, and lets you know if it can be played. Not only is it fun, I actually learned a lot of new words in the process.

I definitely give this 5 stars.

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I love this app. I barely use the Google Analytics website anymore. It appeals to my obsessive compulsive curiosities and I check my stats almost daily. It costs a few bucks but I recommend it highly.

Get it here: Analytics App


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Just like everyone out there I was thrilled to get the new copy of Facebook for my iPhone. It’s new design is a fantastic improvement over the previous version and I spent countless hours exploring the new features. But it keeps crashing on me.

Yup. That’s right. Facebook with all of it’s ingenuity and manpower still creates an app that crashes. But it may also be the iPhone itself that is the problem as well.

When developing for the iPhone platform, Apple leaves the memory management to the app. If the app is not carefully designed to manage memory and data it can crash. I’m not asserting this is the reason Facebook crashes but we have seen this be an issue. Additionally, if the app does not properly accomodate the data network it is on (2G, 3G, Wifi) the app may also crash.

In the early days of the app store, Apple took the approval of apps seriously. Apps would be rejected during the evaluation process for minor infractions to the development guidelines. As the volume of submissions increased Apple seemed to be more lax with their rules. Brand name apps (WSJ comes to mind) with perpetual problems seemed to keep getting approved.

This is a good lesson. You can’t skirt the fact that with higher volume, you innevitably risk quality… No matter who you are.

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