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Dear Blackberry: I Want Cool Apps Too

By Tyson Mutrux

For you iPhoners, please excuse me while I rant; you have what you want. For the rest of you, I know you share in my rage.

I think it’s pretty sad for me and Blackberry when the coolest app I have is BrickBreaker.  I understand that Blackberry offers a decent selection, but let’s be real, iPhoners have 40,000 apps…nuff said.  Don’t get me wrong, I love BrickBreaker.  But what I really want are not cool apps that waste my time, but apps that are useful and that have some practical purpose.  To be fair, some do exist, but I WANT MORE. 

What has finally pushed me over the edge is the
BarBri application discussed by fellow contributor, Katie Luper.  I think this is a great idea, and as soon as I saw the post I went looking to see if there was one in the works for Blackberry.  I kept looking…and looking…and looking.  No-go, my friends. 

And like salt in the wound, Apple keeps running its dang commercials about its apps.  They do this for a reason; because they’re awesome and no other smart phone comes close.  So by writing this post, what I hope to get from you, the reader, are suggestions of apps that you would find useful that have not been created yet. 

This is a short list of applications that I would like to see:

1. A BarBri application, of course. 
2. A GOOD barcode scanner (not the crappy ones currently offered).
3. A job finder application where employers can post openings in real time. 
4. Attention Aspen Publishers, etc.: PLEASE MAKE AN APPLICATION WHERE I CAN DO MY READINGS FROM MY PHONE SO I DON’T HAVE TO LUG AROUND MY BOOKS ALL THE TIME. 

If I mentioned something that has already been created, please let me know.  I look forward to your suggestions.

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Full post as published by Social Media Law Student on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).