Having snubbed the offer of Ben’s old one (which is currently being held as evidence anyway), I’ve just bought my first iPhone. Apart from the weird rubbery earphones (is it just me or is it harder to untangle them) and the rubbish battery, I’m impressed.
The App Store, however, is a little disappointing. It seems to me that although there are over 500 apps available there seems to be an awful lot of the same stuff, who needs 25 different versions of Sudoku? I can’t help but feel that there is a definite lack of female orientated apps. Okay, I admit, the first app I downloaded was iPint but that was only because it was the one that I thought would impress my mates the most and, despite one asking if this was the new ‘3D’ iPhone, it worked.
The other game I’ve also become hopelessly addicted to is the app based on the chinese solitaire game of Mahjong, but why pay £2 or £3 for it when there is a perfectly good free version available? The most disappointing app I’ve come across so far has to be Flashlight - I get as much light from the home screen as I do from the application’s white one.
So, for any potential developers out there who might be reading this, can we please have some more apps for girls!
Top five apps I’d like to see
1. Heat magazine for iPhone
2. An app with a reflected screen to use as a compact
3. Latest fashion trends alert
4. An app that categorises your wardrobe then matches outfits up for you
5. Daily beauty tips (Ben is quite interested in this one too)
Helen Harris, Senior Designer
Reed on July 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm says:
Is this meant to promote controversy?
I’m pretty girlie (belong to a forum for a particular brand of makeup, I’m so girlie-geek). I’m not sure what “apps for girls” is supposed to mean.
I’m not interested in any of the apps mentioned and feel slightly offended that they could be broadly accepted as “for girls.” I’m a tiny bit smarter than that and while I’ve always considered myself to have a rather poor self-esteem, I don’t need an app to cipher what I should wear.
Or maybe I’m just being a girl about it.
Ben Harvell on July 24th, 2008 at 9:26 am says:
Firstly, I’d like to point out that I am not in any way interested in an App for makeup tips!
Secondly, thanks Reed for your comment. I guess the apps mentioned above fit into two cateories, for “some” girls and for Helen!
These were apps she wanted to see and she’s definitely not your average girl
She just wants her gossip fix available at all times! :
Why not tell us what you would like to see for a fair cross section of female requests?
What about an app for that makeup forum you’re signed up to?
electricdave on July 25th, 2008 at 11:31 am says:
Is it just me, or was that first reply a bit over the top? I think the only thing likely to provoke controversy here is Reed’s apparent sense of humour failure. Sounds like someone needs to lighten up a bit…
IC_Helen_Harris on July 25th, 2008 at 12:01 pm says:
Thanks for your support, Dave. Reed made a fair comment and whilst I stand by my opinion of the app store, my ideas for ‘apps for girls’ were meant to be more tongue-in-cheek than anything (although a ‘Heat for iPhone’ would be cool).