The iTunes App Store and its wealth of iPhone applications are now available for browsing, searching, and sharing thanks to a new Facebook page. iTunes on Facebook is busted up into three tabs: featured, games, and search & share. Each one provides links not only to launch iTunes proper, but also to share apps you like with friends on Facebook.
This is a nice start, but it seems to me like only a stepping stone to a more robust Facebook application – I’m thinking something that plugs into the iPhone Facebook app, identifies which apps you have installed, and syncs it up with a list on your profile, so friends can see which apps you’re currently using without requiring you to manually update the list. This kind of function has been wishful thinking on my part for just about any platform that has the cajones to actually pull it off. Yeah, it might just be us überdork elite who think anyone gives two licks about which mobile phone software we have installed, but I know I would check up on my techie friends more often if I knew they had something like this set up. Besides my own personal interest in such a project, any company managing an app store would love to get their mitts on the demographic data they could mine from Facebook profiles that would otherwise be inaccessible through only the on-device app store portal.
ANYway, iTunes on Facebook is a solid no-brainer move on Apple’s part – I’m just curious what they’re going to do next with it.
[via Mashable]