If you're looking for fresh software for your iPhone then Sean Heber might just be your new best friend: he's set his one-man software enterprise the challenge of producing a fresh piece of application pleasantness every day this month, and is releasing them - free, naturally - over at his site, iApp-a-Day.
There's a decent mixture of the vaguely-practical and the practically-vague, with graffiti-style message boards apps, instant photo blogging, art programmes and more, but if you're keen to try out something different or are looking for inspiration as to what the iPhone's hardware might be capable of (for instance, today's application uses the accelerometer to control a paintbrush, tipping it around the screen) then it's worth a look.
[via Apple-Touch.com]
My prediction is that come January El Jobs will announce that you have to apply and generally supply ‘yeah man’ DNA to design applications for the iPhone and iPod, but once you’ve shown you can yell ‘yeah man’ really loud whilst downing your fifth blueberry and kelp smoothie you’ll be shown the special stuff inside the device, you can then create applications that people can buy on iTunes. There will be a lot of license stuff, paperwork etc and strictly no voip permitted, but it’ll open up a whole new frontier and one not dependent upon super targeted assassin like advertising so favoured of Facesoft.
I came across this choice quote in the Guardian this morning, attributed to a ufologist:
‘If the pet hamster in your bedroom suddenly manages to construct a machine gun, you are going to have to give him more than the usual amount of attention’.
That kinda sums up what the iPhone is going to do to the mobile phone market in the months to come. Our furry friend just got ammo.