I was having a conversation with my best friend and we came to the realization that there are only a few different types of apps. We were talking about apps that just contain information about someone from their personal blog; a business card app of sorts. This seems like an excellent idea considering that the iPhone and iPod Touch have an installed base of 70 million devices and with the advent and release of the upcoming iPad, that user base will surely grow as it will support apps right out the gate.

The other thing we noticed is that there are only a few different types of apps on the appstore. A lot of people will debate this, but when you go to the release list and look at what is being released, you’ll see mainly ‘smut apps’; apps that feature scantily clad women. Or you’ll see apps from a developer that is clearly just renaming their app and releasing it again; the buckshot approach. My app will be out there, but it will thirty clones with very similar names. The fireworks app is a prime example, AAA fireworks or A-1 fireworks. The studio/person that released this collection of apps should have their developer license revoked.

It would be good if the smut apps could get their own category so that the other categories could be free of the filth. It detracts from the rest of the apps that actually deserve to be there. Another feature that would be neat to have is that of a developer rank; people can rank the entire suite of apps that are produced/released from a given developer. This would allow people to clearly see that what the developer has done and what their quality is.