By early 2009 when the new iPhone 3GS was made available in the UK, there were around sixty five thousand iPhone apps available for download. There were seventy thousand apps in the app store after the 3GS launched. It didn’t work. The app store filled up faster than they’d have imagined and users snapped those apps up even faster. The first methods introduced for finding the best iPhone apps were categories.

Games, utilities, research apps, and so on, were all separated from each other for easy sorting. Then there were the top twenty apps that were displayed in an ever changing list on the iphone insurance app. Apple also introduced a Genius feature meant for apps. It suggests new apps that you should download based on the apps you already have.

In the end, iPhone users will have to find the best apps the old fashioned way.