Chapter 2

Apps 411: Browsing, Installing, and Managing Apps

In This Chapter

arrow Searching for and installing apps

arrow Reviewing apps

arrow Updating apps

arrow Deleting apps

arrow Managing store cards with Passbook

arrow Stopping by the Newsstand

arrow Playing around in the Game Center

Since 2008, when third-party software developers were given the possibility to create apps for iPhone, the number of things you can do with your iPhone has increased exponentially, limited more by imagination than the hardware itself. To give you an idea, you can find apps for recipes, games, electronic readers, home banking, photo enhancement, conversion tools, and music identification, not to mention profession-specific apps such as radiation dosage calculators for oncologists or turbine calculators for mechanics. You find all those apps ...

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