Comments on: iPhone apps: Bad for Facebook, OpenSocial?

With the debut of the iPhone App Store, social-network developer platforms are no longer the darlings of the software world. That's partially because you can charge for an iPhone app.

[bfuenmayor]

I wonder if anyone will create multiplayer games for the iPhone 3G? Perhaps even a World of Warcraft version, or other MMOs?

[Xtoo]

There's a working version of multiplayer Pong and Unreal Tournament for the iPhone. Both work in real time and with multiple players over wi-fi. Both apps are not out yet.

[humanssssss]

Most people like the iPhone, I don't. iPhone is clunky to use.

[SixVodkas]

OMG, then you should try that hideous HTC Diamond! A pair of Norwegians had one at the bar last week, and after we'd spent 20 minutes comparing it against my iPhone, they ran to the BayBrook Apple Store and bought two.
You ain't SEEN clunky 'til you've seen that POS.

[tundraboy]

Seems to me that Apple has the chance to own mobile computing the way Microsoft owned Desktop computing. It's probably dawned on Jobs that he's entering an undiscovered country here and if he plays his cards right (and in particular steers clear of the insanely high pricing that consigned the Mac to niche status in '84) the iPhone can lead to stock price growth that matches Microsoft's 20 year binge that saw its stock rise 400 fold.

Somewhere down the road Apple will have to drop carrier exclusivity and just get an iPhone in everyone's hands to maximize network effects. The main obstacle to iPhone's growth is carrier pricing. The first carrier that figures out how to offer an integrated home and mobile internet service at a reasonable cost wins all the marbles.

[Kwasiowusu]

Apple is going to own mobile computinmg the same way Microsoft "owned" desptop computing? Will you excuse me while I laugh?
First of all, Microsoft OWNS dsktop computing, accounting for over 95% desktop market share worldwide. Second of all, Nokia alone sells to the tune of over 500 million cell phones per year, and accounts for over 40% of all cell phones sold on the planet. If anyone owns mobile computing, its Nokia, not Apple. How you can even dare to declare that Apple is about to own mobile computing, at a time when Nokia sells more cell phones every single year, than ALL THE IPODS APPLE HAS SOLD SINCE THE IPOD WAS LAUNCHED, and at a time when total iPhone sales don't even add up to 7 milion out of over 1.2 BILLION cell phones sold on the planet is beyond me. The ability of the Apple and Steve Jobs cult followers to live in a world, that is totally removed from reality, is simply unmatched by anyone.

[daftkey]

Kwasiowusu: Nokia is lagging in the Smartphone side of things, where mobile computing is actually taking place. Nobody is "computing" on regular cell phones.

[Perry_Clease]

"Most people like the iPhone, I don't. iPhone is clunky to use."

What did you do with the one you bought? Sell it, give it away, let it gather dust?

[hal Summers]

I guess it's hard to touch the icons when you're bouncing around in the back of the little bus.

[gyardley]

Caroline -

Great article. I just wanted to add that I'm the *co-founder* of Pinch Media - a rockstar developer named Jesse Rohland founded it with me, and I couldn't get anywhere without him or the rest of our terrific development team.

- Greg

[phatcrayonz]

i like the iphone. i just wonder when they will come out with a 233-3.3 adaption of a console leverage modem for it. those are dope.

[humanssssss]

"What did you do with the one you bought? Sell it, give it away, let it gather dust?"

People are crazy for the iPhone. I got good money out of it from my social network even if it was USED for over 3 months!

[Perry_Clease]

"
People are crazy for the iPhone. I got good money out of it from my social network even if it was USED for over 3 months!"

Yes, there is a reason for that; it is the BEST smart phone out there and as such it is in great demand.

[zintin]

Zintin is a new social app that lets you do something no web app could: see and learn about other users in your area. No signing up for anything, just launch the app and start interacting with your friends or people around you. http://zintin.com

[X-C3PO]

From CNET stupid viewpoint, Apple iPhone are everything. Not sure why??????????
See how may iPhone pages on CNET and it's relative.
Just a 3G phone + iPod.

[daftkey]

Maybe because, right now, the iPhone is putting pressure on all the other Smartphone developers (including RIM, who two years ago nobody would have even said could be challenged) to change the way their systems work. Nobody in the Smartphone business has ever had the kind of influence on that industry that Apple has right now.

[brass2themax]

Quite frankly I'm disgusted with the number of young people like myself who can't bare to take their eyes away from their damn cell phone screen throughout the day. They're eyes are glued to the damn things day in and day out, and they're forgetting how to be polite to the people around them through little or no interaction. It's frustrating trying to talk to someone when they all of a sudden get a call or text message and whip out their damned phone to respond.

I'm 22 years old and proudly do not use a cell phone. I carry one for emergencies in case I need to call the police or 911, but I haven't turned it on except for when I need to put minutes on it each month (they expire even if I don't use them).

I no longer even give people who are on their cell phones the time of day. They can hang up and talk to me, if they're on the phone, they might as well not exist in front of me. I'm an IT guy myself, but there are some things that are simply going to ruin our manners and personal interaction skills. No wonder people speed in their cars and are so stressed out all the time, they need to be constantly connected to things instead of taking a break. Want to get in touch with me at home? Leave a message if I'm out, I'm not going to make myself available 24/7. Life is about living, not "texting" or gluing your eyes or ears to a damned phone all day.

Sorry just had to get that out.

[Railgun123]

What exactly 3G is?

[happajay]

From CNET stupid viewpoint, Apple iPhone are everything. Not sure why??????????
See how may iPhone pages on CNET and it's relative.
Just a 3G phone + iPod.

Ahh, how about over six hundred applications and the SDK kit has only been out 4 months now? Think what it will be like in a year.....can you say it's a computer! As people have been saying all along, the iPhone is about the software. People with TV, megapixel cameras and the such have "go-go gadget phones". If you don't have hundreds or soon thousands of programs to customize your phone for your own needs, then you have just another 3G phone. Blackberry and possibly some windows mobile phones can compete, but iPhone "killers" like the instinct are nothing but little gadget phones who want cheap imitations. My god, who would want live TV on their phone when they can have hundreds or thousands of video and audio podcasts to choose from instead...watch what you want, when you want and pause when you want. Push, broadcast TV is lame on a phone in comparison. Thank god Apple did not go that way...way of the gadget phone. I want to replace my laptop and this comes closest.

[benjaminstraight]

Bad apps? Let's give it a bit and see.

[Kwasiowusu]

@ happajay above: You are one funny dude ain't ya?
At the same time that you are claiming that no one would want to watch live TV on their small cell phone screens, you are the same guy that is equally claiming that consumers would want to ditch their laptops and surf the internet on a tiny iPhone screen, which doesn't even have a keyboard, and who's screen is so tiny, older folkes have a hard time even reading abytning on it. If anything, people keep buying laptops with BIGGER screeens which can display bigger lettters, not smaller screens. No one wants to replace their laptops with a devcice that can only be used to surf the internet by midgets and people from Lilliput. Lemme know when you get back to reality, will ya?

[Sabroson]

How could the iPhone be bad for Social Networks? It is YET another outlet for social networks to flourish !!

As the owner of Amistad.com (Friendship in Spanish) I intend to take advantage of the iPhone's popularity, specially now that it will be selling in more hispanic markets like Mexico and Spain.

- Richard Dib

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