The title of this post is inspired by the iPhone TV ad focused on the fact you can share anything from your iPhone. Indeed: You can share pictures, songs, contacts, videos, notes,...everything except one thing: apps. Apple has made impossible for user to easily share their iPhone apps with their peers although this is what is happening in real life (people love to tell what they download and use)
Today we are happy to announce that AppsFire has been approved by Apple (took only 13 days in 1 go) and now present in the App Store (download it here). It is the very first app that allow users to share their iPhone apps with others with zero effort. And for the opportunity we have opened AppsFire to all (including to Windows users).
AppsFire lists automatically your apps in a private area. And then you can decide what to share and who with in 1 click.
Today ReadWriteWeb covered the new release and qualified our app of - quoting - must have. This is a great achievement but we are far from the perfect experience. First we need to improve the way apps are indexed. To date our methodology is not good enough, but we re improving over time. Why isn't it right away perfect? Because Apple has made close to impossible the possibility to read what you have on your iPhone. But we'll get there. We know how. It just takes time.
Second the experience is ok but not amazing. We are cooking some really cool stuff that will make people stick to the app and brings to users a compelling discovery experience. I can't disclose here all the small things we are preparing but there are a number of small details that are going to make a major difference very soon.
Third getting to high numbers is not easy. right now we are experience a massive growth due to the novelty and coverage. But we need to work harder on getting to critical size. We think we know how to get there. But anyone who has dealt with an iPhone app knows how complicated this is.
Conclusion: Appsfire is THE app to share apps. Right now we are very excited. But we keep our feet on the ground for much more to come.
Now enjoy, share and discover great apps.
