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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]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
