iOS apps I miss on Android - and why is that so?
As probably anyone knows who knows me, I am an Android user and fan. My phone is a great device, but nowadays a smartphone and the platform it is built on is only worth as much as there are apps one can and wants to run on them. In my opinion, this is one of the reasons why the new Palms did not work out as planned. But on to the apps I would like to see implemented for or ported to Android!
Oink
“With Oink, you don’t rate places — you rate the things inside. We need you to help fill Oink with all the best stuff.” Oink is an intersting app by Kevin Rose of Digg fame. It’s basically about rating everything that one can think of, see the video for a more detailed explanation:
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If you are into the internet and mobile apps and social networks and you have not come across Instagram yet, you have done something wrong. According to their website, they try to make sharing your life as instant and magic as those first Polaroid pictures must have felt.
Rumors have it that Instagram is actually working on an Android application. That would be really awesome and for sure an application I would be happy to use.
OK, I admit it, I love Flipboard. As I own an iPad I am a happy Flipboard user since the beginning. They improved the app already and it changes the way one consumes news, or their social network feeds. It makes Facebook and Twitter more fun by applying a journal like layout to your social feeds. Check it out. And they just released an iPhone app. Makes a sad Android user, aka me.
Reason to get an iPhone?
Are those apps actually a reason to get an iPhone? No, I do not think so. There is another thought that comes to my mind when thinking about it though. As far as I can recall, there is much news, that Android phones outsell the iPhone. There are more people developing software on/for Android than there are for the iOS devices. At least that is my impression when reading news and surfing the web. I feel like there is a lack of quality in the Android apps compared to iOS apps (of course there are exceptions to this rule).
Then, how come most must-have apps are released on iOS first and not the other way around? How come when someone tells you about a new app or you hear about a really successful app on the web, that it is an app deceloped for iOS first? Do you know why? I would love to hear your thoughts.
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