Mar 18, 2010
There is no dearth of Location services apps in the App Store these days. With SXSW Interactive that just took place, the major location based players got some serious exposure but there really isn’t a clear winner amongst them yet.
Services like FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt are all competing for market share in this area.
I just noticed on TechCrunch how Apple is also garnering a lot of attention to these services. On iTunes these apps have gotten their own area in New & Noteworthy. On the iPhone, they are featured in the top 5 spots (or more) in the What’s Hot section.
Here are the apps thats are getting a lot of attention from Apple
- FourSquare
- Gowalla
- Loopt
- Whrrl 3
- MyTown
Getting featured by Apple is huge for any iPhone app developer as that increase the number of people downloading the app in an insane way as a lot of good apps get buried in the 100,000+ apps in the App Store.
Personally, I am yet to get hooked on to any location based apps. As much as I am open on the Internet and social media, I still hesitate to advertise my whereabouts every day.
How about you? If you have sold your soul to location based apps, what’s your favorite one?
A buddy of mine uses FourSquare a lot. It posts his location feed to facebook, which he likes, and it only posts it when he tells it to. I think the reason he likes it is because there are little rewards or trophies you get in the app depending on where you visit and how many dif types of places you visit. So sort of like a game, but you get it for visiting locations locally. Kind of cool