An article I’d been planning for a while involved comparing the third party application scenes of the Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Apple iPhone worlds. While this will still happen in the fullness of time, the flavour of each ‘scene’ is becoming very obvious and I was struck by one specific point from the iPhone world.
Some of the early stars of the iPhone AppStore are simply very ‘joined up’, mashing iPhone and Web services together seamlessly. Well, almost seamlessly. Apologies for another link over to AAS, but hey, that’s where the article is hosted. I review Movies and Vicinity, two of the very top iPhone applications, explain why they’re so great and also address whether competing (Symbian) smartphones and their apps can rise to the same level.