Why Do We Install So many Similar Apps Without Using Them?

[taz323]

I was on a Jazz Fest this summer and a guy came in to tune a Grand Piano.... With a iPad. The app cost $999.00

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cybertuner/id490451741?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

#Naked Tuesday

Ok, makes wonder how much it would cost to have someone come in and tune it, lol

 

[seashell93]

I am a productivity and weather app hoarder (I think we've established that's what we're all doing with apps!)...as soon as one comes out, if I like the screenshots etc I'll have to try it!! Then most likely delete after awhile...but it's always good to have options right?!
I alternate between calendar apps just for fun, my weather app I love now is Perfect Weather (quick loading plus radar if needed!)
I love fantastical but sometimes need to see a week/agenda type view and will switch to PI Pro or Week Cal. Oh and sometimes I do the any.do/Cal combo....
Ok ok I'll stop now.....

 

[iEd]

Ok, makes wonder how much it would cost to have someone come in and tune it, lol

That app also has $160.00 worth of in app purchases. Yikes!!!!


#Naked Tuesday

 

[sweetstyle]

We need an app that tells us when we last used are apps with an alert that pops up and tells us to delete an app after a set period of time...

 

[Jaguarr40]

Wow Karen!

Perfect reason I started this thread.... Why though and what makes us do this??

 

[TurboTiger]

Just checked my apps folder on the Mac mini. It contains 1642 apps. Although in some cases this includes more than one copy of the same app if an upgrade was another app.

Again, Wow!
Good Luck

 

[youstink]

Just checked my apps folder on the Mac mini. It contains 1642 apps. Although in some cases this includes more than one copy of the same app if an upgrade was another app.

Holy flipping cow


I'm glad I left android and came to iOS

 

[Not Quite Right]

Because you can, thinking that "someday" your use it ... for me "someday" never comes and they just sit in a folder un-used...

 

[ankush77]

wings of freedom ,its just personal preferences.

 

[Jaguarr40]

We need an app that tells us when we last used are apps with an alert that pops up and tells us to delete an app after a set period of time...

Devs choice on how they write and build apps. Won't happen, Why would a developer put such info into their app to remind you to delete it whether you use it or not. I personally evaluate my apps once every month and if I know i have not used it for a long time and am not going to, I purge the app and uninstall it. Fortunately 95% of my apps are free so doing this does not bother me.

 

[Jaguarr40]

I wonder how many apps some of the blog writers have that regularly have to download and review apps?

I hear ya and would not even want to guess unless they install it, review and write about it and then delete it unless it is a choice app they get for free if it is a paid app or not, it is a perk of doing what they do.

 

[estroh]

this inspired me to clean out some apps

 

[sweetstyle]

Devs choice on how they write and build apps. Won't happen, Why would a developer put such info into their app to remind you to delete it whether you use it or not. I personally evaluate my apps once every month and if I know i have not used it for a long time and am not going to, I purge the app and uninstall it. Fortunately 95% of my apps are free so doing this does not bother me.

You totally missed the point Jag, I was referring to an app that monitors all other app frequency of usage with alerts... Apple probably wouldn't allow but heyho just throwing it out there...

 

[Auturi]

Wouldn't it be great if Apple let us delete the stock apps... and substitute apps from the app store to be our main apps?

I don't install what I don't need. If I don't use it, I delete.
(Hey, that rhymed! :laughing

 

[sunrat39]

this inspired me to clean out some apps

Same here. I am going through and deleting apps. Maybe this is a case of "less is more" as far as utilization out of your phone? I seem to get distracted with all these apps.

 

[TurboTiger]

OK, I got fired up as well & reviewed all my apps.
Only deleted one.
But then today I added a new one.
I will never learn.
Good Luck

 

[Tre Lawrence]

I wonder how many apps some of the blog writers have that regularly have to download and review apps?

I review Android apps for a living, but I generally use review devices for them. If I have to use my primary device, they are generally off within seconds of the review being completed.

Every now and then, I review an app I have to keep (like Pocketcasts). Sometimes the kids will take a liking to one. But on a weekly basis, I download up to a dozen or so new apps, and most of them are off my devices shortly after.