Chapter 10
Useful Productivity Apps
In This Chapter
- Choosing your ideal productivity apps
- Navigating with Maps
- Keeping yourself in the loop
- Playing nice with Office
- Traveling like a pro
- Tracking your finances
- Educating (and entertaining) the kids
- Ready to read
- Watching the weather
- Using alternative browsers
- Finding more great apps
Apps. They make the world go ‘round. And no matter the problem you have, “There’s an app for that.” It’s pretty astounding to think that when iOS launched originally as iPhone OS, there was no App Store whatsoever. Trying to envision a successful iPhone today sans a market place for apps is nigh impossible, and it’s clear that Apple’s mobile stable of devices has seen skyrocketing adoption largely due to the creativity and determination of its third-party developer community. Today, apps aren’t just a part of iOS, they are iOS. Apple has done a phenomenal job making beautiful, desirable hardware, and it has also done a laudatory job optimizing its hardware and software in order to provide a world-class, rock-solid user experience. But the rest of the equation is filled in by people who aren’t even employed by a company in Cupertino. Apple’s biggest strength in the smartphone and tablet market is its App Store. One of the first questions that people ask me upon purchasing an iPhone is this: “Which apps should I download?” With well over 300,000 apps on the App Store, it’s a huge chore to wade through those in order to find a worthwhile handful. In this ...
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