The Top 5 IPhone Apps, How Technology Rocks Our Lifes

We’ve learned to live with everything literally at our fingertips. With our entire lives (or at least as developers would like us to think) on our smartphones or feature phones, the recently released Nielsen Mobile Apps Playbook is more than market research on mobile usage. It’s a quick view of what matters to the modern urbanite. The proliferation of mobile phones has signaled how we love to be connected 24/7 and easy to reach with just a few quick keystrokes. The mobile apps we choose to download are a great indicator of what activities or utilities we find most important. If we are to believe the Playbook, then we spend a good amount of time in our lives playing, checking up on other people’s lives, finding our way around and avoiding a forecasted downpour. But, what do the top 5 iPhone apps say about modern living?


In terms of downloads, game still rank as the first.

With games being downloaded the most, it’s less about fun and games but about being entertained while travelling or waiting. So a game like ‘Angry Birds’ that requires a simple understanding of how things move when they are thrown and an insatiable appetite for the foolish and absurd would definitely become a phenomenon. The tired and bored wired urbanite would appreciate this twist on the Three Little Pigs–the pigs have becomes wolves stealing eggs from the said flightless birds and in retaliation, the birds have built a large slingshot. If that doesn’t make you curious, know that those who have purchased the game have only praise for it. Besides there’s always a free version that will only pique your appetite for this Top iPhone app.

The weather’s not just for small talk, people need to know.

When you live in a country with four seasons, the weather can pretty much control your life. Life is simpler in the tropics where there is only hot, hotter and wet and wetter. But with the free mobile application for the iPhone from The Weather Channel, you can plan your day with the same accuracy you can expect from all the other mobile apps. What makes this mobile app a winner is that it makes the information easy to access and in an efficient manner, too. When this much information is at your fingertips, any elegance goes a long way.

With so much information on the web, remembering everything has become a daunting task.

Think of a stack of post-it notes, to which you can attach videos, photos and text. Then have the ability to annotate and tag them. Let’s not forget the ability to add a voice note or to plot it on a map. Throw in the fact that you can search through them or browse via thumbnails you scroll through. And you’ve got Evernote’s mobile app. This Top 5 iPhone app brings new dimension, literally the word everywhere, to their tagline, Remember everything.

We live on Facebook and Twitter

Taking notes from the elegant UI of the iPhone, the official Facebook and Twitter mobile apps employed grids with their own familiar user interfaces. The better to stalk and tweet you with, it seems. Except that if you think about just how much information is on these websites, an elegant reader-friendly UI is the only way to go. Though it must be considered that the popularity of these official mobile applications has more to do with the websites’ popularity.

Your music to go, just as you like it.

The iPhone was designed on the structure meant to keep your music with you at all times. But with Pandora, our last iPhone app, it seems that you might not need to actually keep all your music on your phone anymore if you can ensure that you’ll always have a connection. Pandora allows its users to stream music according to preferences and parameters they’ve preselected, and with its rating system, Pandora learns and is able to refine your listening choices. Now if that doesn’t sound like a sci-fi film. You’ve got modern living, with occasional music.

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