Your Voice: iPhone Apps

Since the end of the June when apple released the iPhone & iPod Touch 2.0 firmware, the market for Apps has gone insane and the amount of apps that are now available for download is ridiculous. Although there are many great free apps, I haven’t really wanted to download them.

If i have more than one page of apps on my first generation iPhone, it becomes incredibly sluggish, and the user experience isn’t a good one. Therefore I’m not a fan of them - i have only 5 or 6 apps.

These are:

• Aim (AOL Instant Messenger)
• Last.Fm
• Twitterfon
• Brightkite
• Fring

Notice how they are all social network sites and communication tools? The iPhone to me is a phone and it will be nothing more. (Apart from a music player too).

I want to know: What do you use on your iPhone? What apps do you use on a regular basis, and what are your opinions!

iTunes: Re-Downloading your music

Yesterday, I discovered that I was missing some of the music that I had purchased a while back from the iTunes store. I looked everywhere for it - on external hard drives, iPods, you name it. Turns out that I obviously had missed it out when backing up. But iTunes doesn’t offer any re-download service which to me, seems ridiculous. I’ve lost music that I’ve paid for, you can re-rip a CD that you’ve purchased from a store, what’s the difference? Yes, there could be legal issue’s but I have some right to re-download the music that I have the paid license for, to listen to.

It just annoys me that Apple, (the biggest online store and music seller in the US) is stopping us from re-downloading music and listening to it. Yes, I can agree that it’s partly my fault for not correctly backing it up. But I should be able to get it from iTunes Store again? 

What are your thoughts on this? Here’s a youtube video I made to watch.

Pointless Application & Device Updates

Are very annoying. How boring is to wait for the iPhone’s amazing huge 250+mb firmware to download. Seriously, can they not make add on updates like 20mb? It’s a hefty bit of tube work for my internets handle, yeah sure I can download it, but then what? I have to wait 10 minutes for my iPhone to do something which could break it (Which It has done before) and yet I see no improvement what SO ever in the OS.

Yes, I know they’re bug fixes, but to me they just seem to pointless. Can you just not make a giant pack of bug fixes and then release it?

What’s your thoughts on device updates and how you apply them?